00:07The three ingredients are acting ability, intelligence, and look.
00:21You know, I really think the thrall has gone out of our relationship.
00:26What is this?
00:27My true nature.
00:30You want taste?
00:30Sarah's like old Hollywood.
00:32You've heard of me.
00:34She shows up on time.
00:35She knows all her lines.
00:36She understands the character better than anyone.
00:39Nah.
00:40Really?
00:41Sarah was originally brought in for Cordelia.
00:45Well, guess again, pal.
00:47We were still coming off of the way Buffy was conceptualized in the feature.
00:53It took us a while to come around to Sarah being Buffy, and it was a different Buffy.
00:58But it was clearly a Buffy.
01:05Anthony Stewart Head was the first person that got cast on the first day we started casting.
01:10He was just it.
01:12We weren't looking for somebody British.
01:15Oh.
01:16It just came into my head.
01:18Tickles.
01:19Why not try that?
01:20It was Giles.
01:21It was a librarian.
01:23It could be somebody who's British.
01:25Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
01:33You know what?
01:34I'm sick of this crap.
01:36I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis.
01:40As of this moment, it's over.
01:43I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey.
01:46Nicky was really cute, but didn't know he was.
01:49Nick was a PA.
01:50Nick was a number of things.
01:52I don't think he was big on the acting before this.
01:54He had this very self-effacing quality.
01:57Like any of that's enough to fight the dark master.
02:00It really worked for the character.
02:02He walked right in and was just Xander from the first minute.
02:05Guy's a genius.
02:10That was a really hard role to cast.
02:12We actually had cast someone else in the pilot, and it just didn't work.
02:16So when we got picked up, we always felt that we were going to start again and look for another
02:21Willow.
02:22You're essential.
02:22The qualities that Willow had to have are the exact opposite qualities of what actresses have to have.
02:31I can't help it.
02:32I just have all this involuntary empathy.
02:34Sort of insecure, shy, self-effacing.
02:38Should I be watching my occipital lobe?
02:41Your what?
02:42Occipital.
02:43The lobe in the back of your brain.
02:45You know, like, should I be watching my back?
02:47But, you know, the back of your brain.
02:50I mean, every line that somebody else would play like they were sad, Allison was joyful about.
02:57I found you.
02:59It made her the only one for the role.
03:07We really wanted a warm mom in the midst of all this craziness.
03:12When I auditioned, I had a little scene, and I think I had maybe four little lines.
03:16I thought she and Sarah looked alike.
03:17The next thing you know, you got a call offering you the part.
03:20To her credit, Joss just kept writing for her and writing that relationship, and it was sad to see her
03:27go.
03:30David Boreanaz is my Lana Turner and Schwab's drugstore story.
03:35The breakdown said, the most gorgeous, mysterious, fantastic, the most incredible man on the face of the earth.
03:43I think I saw every guy in town.
03:48It was the day before shooting, and a friend of mine called me and said to me,
03:53you know, there's this guy that lives on my street who walks his dog every day,
03:57and I don't know what he does, but he is all the things you're describing.
04:01And the minute he walked in the room, I wrote down on my notes, this is the guy.
04:06Stitch me up, Doc.
04:08Got places to go.
04:11And slay us to kill.
04:17With the Spike role, we didn't know who he was.
04:21When I first got cast as Spike, I thought it was just maybe 10, 15 lines maximum.
04:27We thought he might be kind of a Western guy.
04:31Tough talk, cowboy.
04:32And then they sent me the script, and he was all through the script,
04:35and they kept going to my girlfriend.
04:37Honey, look at this.
04:38We read a lot of people.
04:40When we finally found James, and he was such an incredible actor,
04:43I love you.
04:44We worked with different accents.
04:46We tried different things, and now most people don't even know he's American.
04:51I was sure that he was from England the whole time I was talking to him.
04:54You're a piece of work.
04:56I like you.
05:00I have finesse.
05:02I have finesse coming out of my bottom.
05:04Emma is a natural comedian.
05:08It's just so lovely.
05:10Oh, I wish it was mine.
05:12Emma just kept knocking them out of the park.
05:15Go, Xander.
05:15I love you.
05:16And is able to pull off this flighty Anya character every day
05:20where you really enjoy her character.
05:22You can see how Xander fell for her.
05:24She's cute and funny.
05:25The best way it can happen is when a character resonates so much
05:28you can't let go of them.
05:33I had always imagined her as, you know, very tiny and bird-like,
05:37and we read a lot of girls.
05:39Amber came in and physically was not the type, you know.
05:41She was more womanly and voluptuous, and she gave an incredible read.
05:45It's just hard, an outsider feeling.
05:48But physically, it wasn't what I had been thinking about.
05:51And it was, in fact, Marty Noxon who said,
05:54we have to read that girl again.
05:55I think that's the girl.
06:00What are you doing here?
06:06Buffy, if you're going out, why don't you take your sister?
06:11Mom!
06:12Michelle has actually given me a pitch she had written out
06:15when she was, like, 13 of how she could be on the show.
06:18I really wanted to be on the show.
06:19I had constantly told my agents and managers
06:21that if there was a guest starring role,
06:23then, you know, I'd be more than willing to do it.
06:26She was older than we had been thinking about.
06:28Not a kid.
06:29But I was like, well, she's pretty well known.
06:31Will she read?
06:31Sarah's like, she'll read.
06:33And so we did read her,
06:34and the moment she was done reading,
06:36our search was over.
06:38She was, you know, extraordinary,
06:40and she brought extraordinary depth to a scene
06:42that she had no idea what it was about.
06:44She was out.
06:45She was één.
06:50She wasré.
06:50She was nine years old.
06:51You
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