Buffy Spinoff: Willow the Vampire Slayer?
Source - TVGuide (spoilers) 13/03/03
With Sarah Michelle Gellar preparing to dust her last blood-suckers
on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Eliza Dushku committed to the Fox
pilot Heroine, who ever will protect viewers from things that go
bump in the night? Our chosen one is Alyson Hannigan, aka the wickedly
funny witch Willow. And series creator Joss Whedon just might agree
with us, too. "The concept sounds cool," he admits to TV
Guide Online.
However, that's not the reason that Whedon is crossing over the
powerful wiccan from UPN's Buffy to its sister show on Wednesday's
Angel (airing at 9 pm/ET on the WB). "There's nothing to suggest
[a Willow spinoff in this episode]," he insists. "It just
made narrative sense. We've been dealing with [the do-gooder vamp's
evil alter ego] Angelus, and Willow was instrumental in getting his
soul back [the last go-round], so we thought it would be interesting
to speak of that history a little bit."
What's more, the boss hoped that Buffy's quirky confidante would
lighten up the Angel gang during this, their darkest hour. "Alyson
is a fun person to bring into the fray, because she has such a completely
different energy than the Angel cast," he explains. "She's
very Sunnydale — very sunshiny and goofy and childlike, even
though she's matured a great deal. And Angel is so turgid and soapy,
it's fun to have somebody come in and give her perspective on things.
"Besides," he adds with a laugh, "she's [Angel regular]
Alexis [Denisof]'s sweetheart."
Actually, Whedon is kind of stuck on the redhead himself. If nothing
else, he continues to be bowled over by her ability to make work
seem like play. "Aly was being a sweetie [guest-starring when
she did], because she was doing American Pie 3 and Buffy at the same
time. She was working every day, including weekends, doing three
different things, and she came through like a trouper." |