James Marsters is unpacking considered one of his most uncomfortable scenes, which in the end despatched him to remedy.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum just lately described his “private hell” as he mirrored on a 2002 episode by which his vampire character Spike makes an attempt to power himself on the titular slayer (performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar).
“Buffy despatched me into remedy, truly. Buffy crushed me,” stated Marsters on Michael Rosenbaum‘s Inside You podcast, including: “It’s a problematic scene for lots of people who just like the present. And it’s the darkest skilled day of my life.”
The scene from the Season 6 episode ‘Seeing Crimson’ is basically thought-about one of many hardest to look at within the Joss Whedon sequence, which ran for seven seasons on The WB from 1997 to 2003. To show his love, Spike makes an attempt to rape Buffy in her lavatory, though she’s in a position to struggle him off.
“The writers had been being requested to give you their worst day, the day that they don’t speak about, their darkish secret, the one which retains them up at night time, after they actually harm any person or after they actually received harm or made an enormous mistake of some sort, after which slap metaphoric fangs on prime of that darkish secret and inform all people about it,” he recalled.
James Marsters and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000). (twentieth Century Fox Movie Corp.)
“One of many the ladies writers truly had give you this concept, as a result of in faculty she had gotten damaged up with and she or he went to her ex’s place and thought that in the event that they made love yet one more time, all the pieces can be mounted,” Marsters continued. “She sort of pressured herself and he needed to bodily take away her from the premises, and that was one of the painful recollections of that point of her life.”
Marsters fearful how the scene can be perceived by followers of the present, particularly given the context of flipping the genders within the state of affairs.
“They thought that since Buffy was a superhero that they may flip the sexes, since Buffy may may defend herself very, very simply from this,” he defined. “They thought that they may have a person do it to a lady and it could be the identical factor. I went to them and I stated, ‘You understand, guys, we’re offering a vicarious expertise for the viewers. Everybody who’s watching Buffy is Buffy, they usually’re not superheroes, so I’m doing this to each member of the viewers, they usually’re going to have a really totally different response.’”
Contractually, Marsters “couldn’t say no,” including: “We received the scene within the can, and it was hell. I used to be in [my] private hell.”
“I don’t like sexual predation scenes, something that has to do with it,” he famous. “I don’t audition for these issues. If there’s a film with that sort of materials, I don’t go to see the film. If it pops up on tv, I’ve received to show the tv off earlier than I break it. I’ve a really visceral response to that stuff.”
Though Gellar has watched a lot of the sequence along with her household, she defined that ‘Seeing Crimson’ is one episode they skip. “I’ve bother with [season] six. It wasn’t acceptable for them on the time, and I simply don’t wish to rewatch it,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter final 12 months.
