Q&A with David Boreanaz & James Marsters
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Season 5 Q&A with David Boreanaz & James Marsters |
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Continued from page 1 Talk to me about the fact that I’ve read up on a couple of things about you guys that a lot of the lines in ANGEL were adlibbed. They started with you in BUFFY and that it kind of continued. Is that true or is it very much scripted? DAVID BOREANAZ: Its pretty much, very much scripted. I don’t know where that came from. Joss is very particular, always was very particular on specific lines which really have motivated specific story points. JAMES MARSTERS: Wrong conjunction. Take two. DAVID BOREANAZ: You know you look back and you go this is why it was happening and this is why you had to say that for that specific reason and I think because he was so specific it kind of pin pointed the show for what it was, and is. Yeah. DAVID BOREANAZ: I think ANGEL will have a strong life in the future and they were saying that whilst they were shooting because it is different. It was more complex and I mean BUFFY was an extremely different show it was geared towards a different level. JAMES MARSTERS: But the point of it was BUFFY was not about vampires, BUFFY was about the human characters and the vampires on BUFFY were just kind of a sideshow. Whereas ANGEL was all about... DAVID BOREANAZ: Freaks. JAMES MARSTERS: Yeah so it had a scope. Absolutely. JAMES MARSTERS: And it had a need for special effects and stunts that BUFFY never had. Sure. JAMES MARSTERS: So to get that one in the can… Dude, I don’t know how you did that for five years. Smoked me. Smoked me, one year on that show smoked my ass. Both Angelus… DAVID BOREANAZ: I guess. Angelus and Spike were both in love with Buffy. Who should ultimately have gotten the girl? DAVID BOREANAZ: Ah you know I think that… It has to be Angel doesn’t it? DAVID BOREANAZ: Well you know Angel’s forte of going on and taking off and leaving her crying by the ambulance. You did! Heartless. DAVID BOREANAZ: I just think that over those years, though his radar was subject to picking up something a bit different maybe. I don’t know, but ultimately it’s really still up in the cards I think. JAMES MARSTERS: I don’t know man. There was an episode in the end of the season on BUFFY. They kind of sowed that one up. You came back over and filmed a scene. You remember that shit? DAVID BOREANAZ: All I did was give her a ring or something. JAMES MARSTERS: I know but it was pretty clear that was true love whereas I was just really good sex. You were just a blow in. JAMES MARSTERS: She used me like a tramp. She did, didn’t she. Heartless... Beep! Talk to me about the conventions - the sci-fi vampire. You must have met some strange people. Now I know they are your fans so you don’t want to dis them but come on. DAVID BOREANAZ: I don’t really think of it as a multitude level of insanity like that. You can have a specific group of people that are fascinated with a certain subject matter. I think with us it has always been a group of fans that have always enjoyed the show and the genre rather than the specific quote unquote vampire kind of a thing. I mean you do have the occasional person that dresses up and comes and sees you. JAMES MARSTERS: That’s beautiful. DAVID BOREANAZ: Which is great JAMES MARSTERS: I love that. Let the freak flag fly. DAVID BOREANAZ: If we can give them their respect. If they can do that it’s great but it really enables us to go and see the fans and give back to them for what they have given us for five seasons. JAMES MARSTERS: And Angel and Buffy fans, there fans of good writing and ultimately that’s what really draws people to the show. So my interaction with fans of the show has always been surprising. I have a lot of interesting conversations and a lot of people are very cool and I guess I play a character that they expect is going to hit them if they offend me, so they are always like I don’t want to disturb you or anything. Any ones that actually believe they are vampires or that you guys are vampires that they exist. JAMES MARSTERS: Very, very few. But they do… Come on tell me about one. DAVID BOREANAZ: I never really got that I never got the whole you’re a vampire thing. JAMES MARSTERS: Yeah man those guys watch ‘underworld’. It’s a whole different thing. With you guys having played those sort of roles for so long and having researched the whole ‘where is the vampires motivation’, do you ever find yourself asking actually you know, they could exist. DAVID BOREANAZ: No JAMES MARSTERS: No Do you believe in the supernatural at all? DAVID BOREANAZ: No JAMES MARSTERS: No. We’re nothing if not honest you know. DAVID BOREANAZ: I believe in the supernatural yeah of course. Spirits and what not and energy but I don’t believe that there are creatures of the night walking around. I’m sure there are late in the evening hours somewhere Soho or down in New York. JAMES MARSTERS: Yeah and at that point there are people who do believe it, people who get their canines sharpened and extended and if they really believe they are vampires they really might bite someone so what’s the difference. Fair enough. But for the real bona fide vampires you’re not going there you don’t believe that they could actually exist? JAMES MARSTERS: No man I think we are profoundly ignorant of our situation here in the universe and I think we are in the middle of something far more complex and beautiful than we realise but we really don’t know exactly what that is. DAVID BOREANAZ: That was deep. JAMES MARSTERS: Thanks man. That was so deep I don’t know what to say to it. JAMES MARSTERS: Coffee’s working. Good man. Obviously ANGEL was left on the mother of all cliff hangers which means for all the fans they’re begging to hear there will be some kind of Angel reappearance whether its in a movie or a couple more series. What’s going on? Can you give us any tip bit of hope? DAVID BOREANAZ: There won’t be a series. If anything it would have to be a big screen feature as far as getting me back involved into playing this character again for raising the bar and the level to where it has to be. I think going back and doing an extended series on it or something to further it maybe a little bit longer would most probably jeopardise it or maybe even taint it in a way that may hurt it. And I won’t want to do that. Really. DAVID BOREANAZ: I mean unfortunately for the fans at the same time the door was so left wide open the way they ended this season and this show I think was a great way. And you’re happy with that. You’re happy they didn’t kind of conclude to any other kind of… DAVID BOREANAZ: Very happy. OK. Well if we are not going to see you on Angel again, final question is what are you guys up to? Where can we see you James first of all? JAMES MARSTERS: I've been frustrating my team and turning down a lot of roles frankly. That’s good. It’s good to be selective. JAMES MARSTERS: Frankly yeah. A lot of people want me to play demons or bad guys and drug addicts and that stuff DAVID BOREANAZ: Drug addicts [laughs]. JAMES MARSTERS: But I played a human being recently and that was very refreshing. That was good. I liked doing that a lot. I’m working on music actually which is going really well. Because you’ve got a band? JAMES MARSTERS: No I’ve split up my band and that’s a hard thing but I’m continuing doing my material with a new producer and I’m really happy about how it is coming out and I think it is going to be really good. And David? DAVID BOREANAZ: I just did, I’ve done 3 movies so far. I’ve done a romantic comedy with Alana and Paul Sorvino. It’s called MR FIX IT. Then I did a film called THE HARD EASY with Bruce Dern and Vera Farmiga. JAMES MARSTERS: You worked with Bruce Dern? DAVID BOREANAZ: Yeah JAMES MARSTERS: Fucking A! Beep! JAMES MARSTERS: Sorry. DAVID BOREANAZ: Peter Weller was in it. I play a neurotic stockbroker who is out 4 million dollars and is selling bonds to diamond heists. And I’m working on a film called THESE GIRLS with Caroline Dhavernas. I don’t know if you know her. She’s a very talented actress. I play a stoner kind of guy. It a black comedy. So nice and varied roles after… DAVID BOREANAZ: Yeah I’ve done some very interesting roles and I think that it’s been really interesting to see the take on that and we’ve just sold the show to ABC so I’m excited. Busy man. Busy man. Glad to here it. It’s been great chatting to you and good luck with the DVD. I don’t need to tell you that it’s going to do brilliantly. DAVID BOREANAZ: It’s going to be fun. Yeah these DVDs are great for fans Absolutely. DAVID BOREANAZ: Because they can go and can pause it. JAMES MARSTERS: I know they can pause on our naked scenes. Freeze frame on you guys! DAVID BOREANAZ: There’s specials and there’s extras and there’s a lot of the behind the scenes stuff that we did while we were shooting it and I think it’s a gift to you guys, a gift to the fans. Well thank you very much. We accept it with open arms. Lovely chatting to you. Thank you. Question & Answer Text Copyright Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment PHASE9 microsite - Angel PHASE9 Photo Gallery - Angel Season 5 Angel Season 5 - VHS box sets parts 1 + 2 feature Q&A with James Marsters Q&A with Sarah Michelle Gellar Q&A with David Boreanaz Q&A with Joss Whedon Back to movie interviews |
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