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MegaCon Buffy Panel

by Philip Chien

Actors Adam Busch, Amber Benson, Emma Caufield, and Charisma Carpenter and moderator Philip Chien at the mini MegaCon 2009 Buffy the Vampire Slayer panel. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" stars Charisma Carpenter ("Cordelia Chase"), Emma Caufield ("Anya"), Amber Benson ("Tara Maclay"), and Adam Busch ("Warren Mears") appeared together on a panel at the mini-MegaCon in August 2009 in Orlando Florida. Neatinformation.com writer Philip Chien moderated the panel. It was a great success and so crowded that the original room wasn’t big enough and the larger room still wasn’t large enough so the two rooms had to be combined to provide enough seats for the crowd of over 500 fans. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was on the air from 1997 to 2003 and its spinoff series "Angel" ran from 1999 to 2004. Even though it has been years since the series went off the air there’s still plenty of interest.

Adam Busch takes a photo of the audience. After the stars sat down Adam Busch took a photo of the audience from his vantage on the stage which he later posted to his Twitter feed. The moderator introduced each of the stars and each one received a nice applause from the audience.


Phil (moderator): Amber, you have a very lovely voice. Have you ever considered recording an album?

Amber: I don’t play an instrument; I don’t write songs. If somebody wants to write me an album I’ll sing it.


Adam Busch's band 'Common Rotation'. Phil: Adam, you do play instruments and sing for you band "Common Rotation", talk about that a bit.

Adam: It’s a folk band, we sing like "Simon and Garfunkel" style stuff. We’ve made a bunch of records, we spent this summer on the road with "Indigo Girls" and we’re going to go out with them again in October.


description Phil: Emma, tell us about your experiences in the musical episode [Once More, With Feeling]. It was absolutely amazing finding out that Anya could sing and dance - and even backwards in heels.

Emma: I had a really good time, I was totally challenged, scared. I am not a singer. I don’t want to kill the illusion for you guys but I’m really not. I’m really not. Years of on again and off smoking did a lot of really bad damage so my voice will only do so much. But that’s what a sound booth is for. Someone who’s kind of enough not to write beyond my range, my sad range. Dancing in heels, I don’t know how well I did that either. You guys thought I did okay. It was great, it definitely reenergized, what’s the word I’m looking for? Reinvigorated – it definitely gave us a boost, like a shot of B-12 or something. We were all very happy on that episode.


Phil: Since we’ve been talking about music; I’ve got to ask. Charisma, can you sing better than you’ve sung on both "Buffy" and "Angel"? (Cordelia sang a clip from "The greatest gift of all" – extremely off key on both series.)

Charisma: I’m really glad I was on "Angel" so I didn’t have to do that episode.

Charisma asked Emma: Did you have to audition for Joss [Whedon, the executive producer and creator of "Buffy"] so he could write for you?

Emma: I would walk around the set sometimes, part of my way of poking at him just for fun would be to sort of scream like an Axl Rose kind of thing – to say his name over and over again. I think he deduced from that that I had some ability to sing and wrote kind of in that range; but I never actually had to sit at a piano - luckily.


Adam Busch and Amber Benson. Phil: Adam and Amber, I understand you guys have produced a new project. Tell us about it.

Amber held her arms together and mimed rocking a baby back and forth.

Amber: No, just kidding.

Phil: Okay, that would’ve been real news!

Amber: I thought it was funny. Sometimes I can be funny, not always. We just co-directed a film called "Drones" that Jonathan Woodward starts in. You remember him from "Buffy", and "Angel" and "Firefly" and Samm Levine from "Inglourious Basterds".

Adam: James Urbaniak who’s like a hero of mine who plays Dr. Venture on the "Venture Brothers". He was also, you can check it out, Robert Crumb in "American Splendor" – he does a fine job. And Angela Bettis from the movie "May". It’s kind of an office comedy with a lot of talking people in an office and some of them might be aliens. It’s just like the office you work at. We got to co-direct it and our friends wrote it and we got to make it in Louisiana. We’re going to be done with it by the end of September and we’ll get it out. We’re really excited about it.


description Phil: Emma, I’ve seen your webcomic. Tell us about that and the other projects you’re involved with now.

Emma: The webcomic is called Contropussy. It’s about a controversial cat. But it’s more allegorical than that obviously. They act as human beings so we essentially explore human behavior through a different kind of animal. I’m having a really good time doing that; my writing partner is brilliant. We just launched it a couple of weeks ago. It’s contrapussy.com. Easy to remember. If you follow me on Twitter which PS is my Twitter. If I have to say this one more time I might just break something – I don’t know how much I can prove it is me. It is my Twitter and I’m always twittering about that. Forget the name of the site, you will remember my name because it’s emmacaufield. I just finished a film two days ago. Something you guys will probably really like, if you like the "Shining" you’ll like that film. Scary, definitely got elements of that. I have a film coming out this year called "TiMER" which is great. I play a woman named Oona. It’s odd that I play Anya and Oona. And again, my writing partner and I just had a screenplay optioned. So life’s good. So yeah!


Charisma Carpenter. Phil: Charisma, what’s been happening with you professionally.

Charisma: I have a lot of stuff coming out between now and April. November 7 is "Legend of the Seeker" where I play Triana. Which is a really bitchin thing. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the show. It’s syndicated and it shoots in New Zealand so that was fun but I have to wear head-to-toe leather and it’s a custom made thing and it’s very severe. We kick ass and there’s a little bit of girl-on-girl which is interesting. (big laughter from the audience). "House of Bones" which is the first original movie for "SyFy" is coming out and "Expendables" in April. I did a movie "Vivid" by this amazing director Reg Traviss which is awesome, that was in London, and that’s coming out sometime between January and April.


Phil: Amber, you get this question a lot of times and you’re going to get asked a lot more times. Most of your fans know that you’re heterosexual. But what was it like playing a gay character and what happens when gay fans come up to you and tell you that you’re one of their role models.

Amber: I just feel very lucky that I was able to walk in her shoes. I felt that we knocked down some glass ceilings with the portrayal of Willow and Tara’s relationship. It makes me really happy that I got to do that. Sometimes [actors] lose out on jobs because you played a lesbian character; but I would do it all over again. You’re not just being an actor and regurgitating somebody else’s lines you’re actually making social commentary. You’re actually opening the door and saying "this is okay." It doesn’t matter who you love; you’re just freaking lucky if you find somebody period that you love.


Phil: Emma, In the sixth season of Buffy your character got to kiss all of the male characters – Xander, Giles, and Spike. What was it like and how good a kisser is Tony Head?

Emma: Well Tony and I didn’t really kiss. We kind of like came together. You can’t really tell very much from that. He has soft lips. James is adept. (big laughter from audience). And I love, love Nicholas Brendon, but he just really was obsessed with salmon and red onions every morning. What are you going to do about that? But on purpose. If he was here he’d be going ‘yeah’!


Tara and Willow kiss at the end of 'Entropy' Phil: The more important kissing question which everybody wants to know. For anybody on the panel who has actually kissed Alyson Hannigan (Willow) – what’s it like? (laughs from everybody.)

Amber: It was yummy. (big laugh). It was great. The scene where I’m in my leather jacket and come back and we make up [Entropy] we were doing the scene and I accidentally slipped Alyson the tongue (Amber giggles as she says this). (extremely big laugh from the audience). She was a little shocked. I think I made her sweat for the first time ever in her entire life.


Phil: All four of your characters were killed off on the series at various points. What was it like when you found out, did you know well in advance or was it a surprise when it happened to you.

Charisma: I wasn’t told I wouldn’t be returning. I’m a little sour about that. I found out that they wanted to have me back for the 100th episode [Your Welcome] and give my character closure. Well what kind of closure? So it was a surprise – I didn’t know. I was asked back. I said the only way I’d come back is if I didn’t die. So I agreed and signed the [contract] and was told that I was going to die. Then I was pissed and started crying. I said well, what’s the story – how do I die, because I’m in it now. They told me and I said "That’s good!" I think it gave the character a proper sensitivity that she deserved and I felt it was extremely well written. It was a very emotional day and now I’m fine with it. I think it was one of the best episodes ever on Angel.

Emma Caufield Emma: I did know I was going to die. I asked Joss to actually kill me off. I thought it would be cool – a nice bookend to Anya, her journey. I wasn’t expecting quite the bluntness, to my death. My character died and nobody seemed to notice or care.

Charisma: (to the audience) You care! (Audience applauds).

Emma: I meant within the context of the show. It seemed like everybody else got at least a tear. I was just cut in half and that was it – staring off into space like Janet Leigh in "Pyscho" or something. Sorry for all of you who were sad when I died – it was my fault.

Amber: At the end of, I think it was, season four, Joss [Whedon] took me aside and was like "I have great news, I’m so excited, I can’t wait to tell you" and I said, "Okay what?" and he was like, "We’re going to kill your character – isn’t that awesome?" I was (tiny unsure voice) "Yeah, that’s okay. Ha ha ha funny." So I knew like a year in advance it was going to be happening. It was supposed to happen at the very beginning of that season [season 6]. I think he felt guilty about it, so he kept shoving it back. Maybe we’ll do it in the next episode, I think we’ll do it in the next one. We’ll do the musical then we’ll do it. I did know it was going to happen. I was sworn to secrecy that I wouldn’t tell anybody I was going to die. But I did tell [Adam] he was going to kill me, like our first interaction ever. I was like "Hi I’m Amber and you’re going to kill me."

Adam: Which made for a really awkward conversation later that day. Joss came up to me and said – he never told me anything about anything that was going to happen. He said, (confidential voice) "You’re going to kill someone." And I said, "Oh yeah, who?" because I knew. He goes, "You’re going to kill Katrina." And I said, "Why would I do that?" He just looked at me and said, "I’m not going to tell you anything that’s happening anymore." But for me, if it was like "C.S.I." or "Law & Order" or "90210" and I read that my character was being killed I’d be really heartbroken, but for Buffy most people that I’d seen that got killed returned very quickly, so I really didn’t take it personally. And then I came back really quickly.


Adam Busch in makeup (top) and his stunt double (bottom). Phil: Adam, what was it like going through the makeup when your character got skinned [Villains]. Was it all special effects or were you in makeup?

Adam: It was a lot of makeup. It was freezing that night, really really cold. They had tied me up to a tree like Jesus (extended arms), it was such an ordeal to get my arms in there and my body up there. In between takes they would take me down, it was such an effort, I was like "just leave me up here." So I was up there for a good half a day. A lot of what I was expressing was not acting, it was not fun. The makeup was intense for a lot of that stuff. You can see if you watch the shot where Willow skins Warren I’m like this (head up) and she rips off my skin I go like this (head slumped forward) and I’m slumped back and I am ripped. All of a sudden I’m cut with a 12-pack and abs and biceps. It’s not me – it’s stunt guy. I was flattered, that they thought – get that guy’s body. You can see it’s me like this (head up) but like this (slumped down) I’m just gorgeous.


Phil: Have any of you folks read the Buffy comics or the Angel comic books that have followed on after the series?

Adam: Another great Joss interaction was at the last Comic Con. He was like, "Aww, hey you’re back" and I was like "What?" "In the comics it’s you. This is why I don’t talk to you." I didn’t know I was in the comics. But again, if you check out the comic, which I did after he told me, I look great. I look ripped. But it’s not me. I’m drawn well.

Charisma: I want to introduce my son Donavan to comics. So maybe I’ll start with "Angel" or "Buffy".

Phil: How old’s your son?

Charisma: Six.

Phil: Just the right age to get into comics.

Charisma: I think all people into comics are rad and cool and smart and have interesting lives. (big applause from the audience of course).


Phil: How did they accommodate your pregnancy when you were on "Angel"? Did they rewrite the storyline?

Charisma: They accommodated my pregnancy by shooting me pregnant. I worked through the whole season and I think they had to change the storyline. I don’t think Joss was happy; well I know he wasn’t happy about it – which was kind of disappointing, but we’ve since made amends. He told me I ruined the entire season because I was really going to kick some butt (awws from the audience). Don’t take it like that – that’s just how Joss talks. He’s just forthright. My son is in my belly the whole time I shot it. That really is my big ass belly and butt. One time my uncle [was having dinner at my place]. I stood up and he said, "I thought the baby was supposed to be in the front." I laughed, I thought it was a good joke. So basically the character Cordelia wasn’t ever supposed to be pregnant or be big in any way.


Amber Benson's book - Death's Daughter. Phil: Amber, tell us about the books you’re writing.

Amber: I just started writing a trilogy of books for Penguin. The first one is "Death’s Daughter" and came out in March. It’s like chick lit, urban fantasy kind of – I’m never good at explaining it. It’s about a girl whose dad is death. Death is run like a corporation. He gets kidnapped and she has to run the company. She doesn’t want anything to do with the supernatural world. She just wants to be a normal girl. So she goes on this quest to find her father and become death.

Charisma: Can I star in it when they make it a movie?

Amber: Sure!

Charisma: Awesome – how old is she though, like 13?

Amber: No, she’s 120.

Charisma: Well there goes that.

Amber: She looks amazing – doesn’t she?


Phil: We were asked, "Ladies, what beauty products do you use? You all look great!"

Adam: I just use a base, and exfoliate my hands. (big laughter from the audience).

Emma: I have a good dermatologist.


Phil: Why did Anya go through so many hair changes – an average of, oh, one per episode?

Emma: I was just trying to figure out what color hair I liked on me. I couldn’t decide to make up my mind, and then it became an ongoing joke and they kind of allowed it. They had to, because I never told them I was changing my hair. One of them was for a film – I had to change it. And part of it was it kept growing out from such a drastic change from super black to blonde. It was a heavy process with bleach and the hair fell out. It was really bad. But mostly cause I was bored.


Cordelia's hairstyle on Angel - before and after. Phil: Well Charisma, tell us about cutting your hair short – was it your decision or the show’s decision?

Charisma: Kerri Russell from "Felicity" cut her hair and this big mandate from Warner Brothers came out and said, "No changing of appearances. You must first get approval." So, I went the other way and decided to go long and went too long and it hurt. I was like, "I’m having headaches I need to cut my hair", and then nobody liked it so it got shorter and they went like, "We want you to look like Clarie Danes from whatever movie she did with the bob and that’s how it happened.


Phil: You’ve all had really scary things happen to you on the show, but what scares you in real life?

Charisma: Snakes.

Emma: Horribly phobic of moths. It wasn’t a life long fear. It was years and years ago. I was in my kitchen and saw all different variations of those little bastards, little tiny ones and gray flying around. Swat it and saw another one and swatted it. It was like one of those scenes in a bad movie and I opened up my peripheral vision and there’s a lot of moths in my kitchen. What is going on? It was like getting a film close up. I opened up the pantry door and dozens and dozens of them fly out, they had made a home in my food and on flew down my mouth. And, well, a shark, that’s why I don’t go in the ocean. But I don’t want to hurt sharks. I love sharks I want them to be alive and think they should be protected. But moths, they can all die.

Amber: I’m slightly frightened by this panel (with a smile).

Adam: My biggest fear? Eat a meal at Emma’s house. (groans from the audience). Oh, come on!

Adam: I’m scared of bugs I don’t like them. That’s why I don’t like ants, moths, spiders.

Audience member: You’re in Florida!

Adam: I lived here for a while, 14-17, in Orlando. I was working at Universal [Studios] at the same time Amber was going to Dr. Phillips [high school]. So I used to drive past her going to school every day and didn’t know it – how about that.


Phil: Would any of you like to appear on "Dollhouse" [Joss Whedon’s current science fiction television show.]?

Amber: I think "Dollhouse" is a very different beast than "Buffy" or "Angel". It’s a different genre almost, even though it’s in the science fiction world, it feels like a different thing. I think we’re all so intrinsically connected with that "Buffy/Angel" world that it might be weird to have us. It’s one thing to have Felicia Day, she’s "Buffy", but she’s even more "Dr. Horrible" than "Buffy". We’re all kind of in that world with iconic characters we’ve portrayed, so it would be weird to have us on "Dollhouse".

Charisma: Amy [Aker] does [Dollhouse]. But she wasn’t on "Buffy"; she was on that other show, "Angel".

Adam: It’s like if Martin Sheen guest stared in some new Aaron Sorkin show; it would be really hard for me not to see him as the President.


Actors Adam Busch, Amber Benson, Emma Caufield, and Charisma Carpenter. Phil: Do any of you keep in contact with the other cast and crewmembers from the Buffy/Angel world? Obviously Adam and Amber keep in contact with each other.

Adam: We just saw Juliet Landau [Drusilla] last week.

Amber: She has a new comic book. She wrote an Angel comic.

Adam: We just ran into one of the makeup girls, Gloria.

Amber: She’s doing Juliet’s hair. She’s rad.

Adam: I worked with Rob Hall, I do a lot of special effects.

Charisma: Did you do his film.

Adam: I didn’t do his film, but he told me all about it, showed me clips. It’s a horror film with Laura Prepon. You can always tell when a film is made by a special effects guy or cinematographer.

Amber: We see Danny Strong [Jonathan] quite a bit.

Adam: Tom [Lenk - Andrew] sat in with my band and sang. It was like the worst song ever.

Amber: But he made it awesome.

Adam: He just killed, brought the house down it was so good. Danny’s in New York. We go to New York a lot and say hi to him.


Phil: When you look back at working on "Buffy" and "Angel" what stands out?

Amber: Craft services? (joking)

Emma: Being underpaid? Just kidding. The musical was really a highlight and "Hush" was a good one. That was really challenging – not being able to talk at all. You find yourself not talking much the whole day.

Amber: The musical and "Hush" were two awesome experiences – they definitely stand out. Not only are you acting but you’re doing something that was like totally unique and nobody had done anything like "Hush" before, so you feel like you’re part of something bigger than yourself.

Charisma: Isn’t that the first time [Buffy] was nominated for a [writing] Emmy?

Amber: Yup.

Phil: Amber, it must have been special for you since it was your first episode on the series.

Amber: I was only supposed to do one episode and it just kind of snowballed.

Emma: I have a fun memory. I think it was my 26th birthday. 27th birthday? One of those. Alyson Hannigan thought it would be really amusing to make everyone believe I was turning 30 and set up a banner "Happy 30th Birthday". The entire day the cast is going "Happy 30th" "You know I’m not 30." "Sure you’re not!" That was good. And the gift basket in my trailer full of Depends undergarments. That was fun. I didn’t really appreciate it at the time, but now I think it’s really funny. And if it wasn’t a joke pulled on me I would have also laugh my ass off like she did.

Charisma: I just remember being on that very small lot in Whedon World. I had my dogs. And I remember Nicholas Brendon had a rocking chair, I was always in his rocking chair – it was very soothing. And he and I talked about music a lot. And I remember Tony Head always being such an impeccable upstanding person –human being. Good advice, sound humble, strong person. Very lovely man. When I first met him, he was nothing like what I expected. I expected stuffy Englishman. When he showed up at a table read for the first time we got together he’s wearing the most ridiculous pants. You remember back in the 80s everybody at the gym would wear elastic pants with stripes in pole vault blue and white with elastic on the ankle. And he had an earring in his ear. I was like, "Wow, you are a good actor!"

Adam: He’s great in "Repo! The Genetic Opera", "Little Britain". He’s great in that cop movie [Scoop] with Woody Allen.


Willow and Warren in 'The Killer in Me'. Phil: Adam, tell us how difficult it was to shoot the episode where Willow turned into Warren [The Killer In Me].

Adam: I was doing a play at the time, a musical version of "Happy Days." It was directed by Gary Marshall and Carole King did all of the music. I was playing Ralph Malf. We were doing that every night and I was chained to the theater and told to go to [co-executive producer] Marti Noxon’s house to meet her. I’m thinking "I’m in trouble, this isn’t social, I’ve never been to her house." I showed up and she said, "This is what we’re going to do. Here’s the episode. We’re going to start it tomorrow at 5 am and the first scene we’re going to shoot is you on your knees hysterically crying, turning into Willow and out of Willow, and into yourself and out of yourself and crying. Good luck." I took the script and went to the theater and I did the play and got out at 11 pm and went home. I had to be at the exterior of Buffy’s house at 5 am. So I just stayed up all night and read the [script] and did what I could. I had left a message with Aly saying, "I put together some tapes of some Warren stuff if you want to see it." She left me a message saying, "Great I’m going to make you a tape of a bunch of Willow stuff that I think show the character and we can just cram during the day and watch those tapes." So I show up for work at 5 am and I’m delirious and I go, "Aly, here are those tapes" and she goes, "Oh, I forgot. So good luck." It was one of the first times Joss was there and Marti was there and we all really collaborated together on what it was supposed to be like and what it was supposed to look like. I did the best I could under a very short notice. I never watched it because I’m too nervous to want to see how it turned out. I can certainly say on "Buffy" I’ve done some gigs before with acting, but I’ve never been asked to do as much – comedy, drama, stunts, everything you can come up with. It’s a testament to the Joss and his faith in us.

Charisma: I think that’s why I’d want to work with him, because of the range that’s required. That maybe even as yourself you didn’t realize you could do or had the ability to do. And you’re asked to do it and you have to jump in two feet all in. Sometimes when you can’t prepare that’s when the best stuff comes out.


Phil: Tell us about some funny situations or memorable stories on the set from either series.

Amber: I actually never met David Boreanz. I never met him until I read for "Bones" about a year ago. He was directing the episode and they’re like, "Here’s your old friend" and I’m, "I’ve never met this man before in my life." I had met pretty much everybody else but for some reason whenever he was on the "Buffy" set I would be elsewhere. We must have been the same person, no one ever saw us both on the set at the same time. It’s a conspiracy (laugh).

A rubber snake bites Cordelia. Charisma: We had an episode second season of Buffy where there are snakes which take over the cafeteria [I Only Have Eyes For You]. I’m terrified of snakes. They went to Joss and normally they’re like, "get over it" But he was really sensitive to it. I was just, "I just can’t be on the set when there’s slithering snakes EVERYWHERE." We’re shooting a scene at night. In the episode I get bit by a snake, so we had to work out a rubber snake and make it look real. During that period all of the real snakes were taken away and they had rubber ones everywhere. I was doing a scene with Sarah and she tosses a rubber snake at me to be funny. It wasn’t funny. It was really really terrifying. It was so scary. I remember getting out of the chair so fast. Remember the old wooden school chairs were so heavy? I flew back and was like "whooo" and I was all banged up from that chair. That was a really great memory – it really stands out.

Emma: James Marsters is always a consummate professional. He just never broke [character], no matter what was going on - he was just Spike. There was some crazy action sequence which involved James and his coat and he mistakenly thought that one of the backdrops was a solid wall. He just broke it, went through it, and fell down – it was like a good two three foot drop off. And up he pops still talking and of course we all lost our sh--. We all broke and laughed and laughed. Just because of the visual of him literally falling out of frame, falling out of line of sight, popping back up as Spike [in character] and still trying to do the scene and trying to work his way through the wall. That one stands out.

Tara readjusts herself after running into a post in the Buffy musical. Amber: We were shooting the musical episode and I’m behind Sarah in this dance. And we do the dance and turn around and walk off and I walked off right into one of the poles. I didn’t think anybody saw it because nobody came over and made fun of me. So I thought – they didn’t get it [on camera]. But it’s in the episode! You can see me go into the pole!

Phil: If you look carefully you can see it. You can also see Anya’s hands bouncing back and forth between her hips and in front of her waist in that scene.

Anya's arms in successive shots. Emma: What are you talking about?

Phil: When you’re a background singer in the "Life’s A Show" number they took shots from different takes, so it looks your hands are bouncing back and forth.

Amber: Continuity problem!

Emma: Jane, it’s her fault. But she gets everything right.

Xander punches Warren. Adam: I’m shooting a scene with Nick Brendon [in the episode "Seeing Red"]. We’re in a club [the Bronze] and I’m acting like a tough guy. He comes over and says some words and punches me on the chin. It’s supposed to knock me out but it doesn’t. I go something like, "You’re going to have to do better than that buddy." or something like that. We rehearse it with the stunt guys and go over it a bunch of times. First take the camera’s on me, action, we do the dialog – and he punches me right in the face – for real. And I snap back and I’m supposed to say whatever the line is, but I just stand there staring and say, "I can’t believe you just punched me in the face." Afterwards everybody’s "cut" "cut" "Are you okay?" and Nick’s like, " You couldn’t pull off the line?"

The most awkward kiss on television - ever. Charisma: You remember the time when Wesley and Cordelia kissed in the [library] stacks [Graduation Day part 2] and it’s like really super goopy and messy and we split? When we pull apart there’s there string [of saliva] between us and we were both just ... But we knew the scene really worked because of that nasty little exchange. The truth is I really liked him, I really had a crush on [actor Alexis Denisof]. But Aly won out. [Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denishof eventually got married.]

Phil: When we saw the Cordelia Wesley kiss that had to be the least passionate most awkward kiss on television. I said, that had to take some really good actors to pull it off and make it so perfectly a bad kiss.

Charisma: (after a pause) Thank you.


The panel was a lot of fun and quite enjoyable. Everybody was in a good mood and the panel was a lot of fun with plenty of jokes and lots of inside information about "Buffy" and "Angel".


Special thanks to C. A. Bridges, Leslie Thomas, and Ed Anthony for the photos taken during the panel.
Common Rotation photo courtesy of the band.
Screen captures from “Buffy" DVDs - copyright 1997-2003 Fox Television.

If anybody has additional photos during the panel and photo op afterwards which you'd like to share, please contact us.

Links

Order Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs) from Amazon.com.
Order other Buffy DVDs from Amazon.com.
Order Angel DVDs from Amazon.com.
Order 2008 PaleyFest: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reunion from Amazon.com.
Order Death's Daughter from Amazon.com.
Order Common Rotation's music from Amazon.com.

Emma Caufield’s web comic Contropussy.
Emma Caufield’s Twitter feed (and yes, it is her).
Adam Busch’s band Common Rotation.

IMDB listing for Drones co-directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch.
IMDB listing for Emma Caufield's movie TiMER.
IMDB listings for Charisma Carpenter's projects Legend of the Seeker, House of Bones, Vivid, and Expendables.

C.A. Bridges’ Flickr album of MegaCon images.

About the author

Philip Chien has been a fan of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer" since the series premiered in March 1997.

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