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   48 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”   
      
   1. Sarah Michelle Gellar was up for the lead in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch   
   before accepting the role of Buffy.   
   2. Although she almost wasn’t even Buffy. She was originally up for the role   
   of Cordelia, while the actress who played Cordelia, Charisma Carpenter,   
   auditioned for Buffy. Producers made them swap roles.   
   3. Carpenter was reluctant to take the role of Cordelia as she had already   
   played a bitchy character in Aaron Spelling’s Malibu Shores. Her agent told   
   her she couldn’t be typecast because no one knew who she was, so she   
   admitted defeat and signed up.   
   4. Carpenter was 27 years old when the show first aired, making her one of   
   the oldest actors ever to play a teenager.   
   5. Selma Blair and Katie Holmes were also up for the role of Buffy.   
   6. Ryan Reynolds almost played nerdy sidekick Xander – but ended up turning   
   it down.   
   7. Anthony Head, who played Rupert Giles, was the first actor cast in the   
   series. Producers knew on the first day of casting he was right for the   
   role.   
   8. The role of Willow was recast after the pilot. Producers didn’t feel the   
   original actress was quite right so enlisted Alyson Hannigan once the show   
   got picked up.   
   9. The show was actually a sequel of sorts to a movie of the same name.   
   Showrunner Joss Whedon wrote the script for the film, which was produced in   
   1992. A few years later he was approached about turning it into a TV series   
   and the show was born.   
   10. Donald Sutherland, Luke Perry, Hilary Swank, Seth Green, Ricki Lake, and   
   even Ben Affleck (as a bit-part basketball player) all appeared in the 1992   
   movie.   
   11. David Boreanaz was discovered by the casting director’s friend. They   
   were struggling to cast the part of Angel until a friend spotted Boreanaz   
   walking his dog and got him to audition because he fit the bill so much.   
   12. And it’s a good job they did, as he provided many laughs on set.   
   Boreanaz used to pull his pants down between scenes to test if his co-stars   
   could keep a straight face and stay in character.   
   13. He also used to fool around with Gellar, his on-screen love interest. In   
   a 2002 interview, Gellar revealed: “[We] were the worst. We would do   
   horrible things to each other. Like eat tuna fish and pickle before we   
   kissed. If he had to unbutton my shirt or trousers I would pin them or sew   
   them together to make it as hard as I could. Once I even dropped ice cream   
   on him.”   
   14. Boreanaz was reportedly offered the role of Batman in Christopher Nolan’s   
   reboot as a result of his portrayal of Angel, as well as a role in the   
   Resident Evil series – but allegedly turned both down.   
            [maybe]   
   15. Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander, grew up with a stuttering problem   
   and got into acting to help overcome it.   
   16. As the show went on, Brendon was told to stop working out as he was   
   getting too fit to portray Xander’s nerdiness.   
        [so he got fat instead]   
   17. The character of Jenny (Robia LaMorte) was originally called Nicki, but   
   it became too confusing as everyone on set called Brendon “Nicky”, so they   
   switched her name to Jenny.   
   18. LaMorte started off as a dancer, and appeared in Prince’s music video   
   for 1991 single “Cream”.   
   19. In the show, Willow says she used to write fan-fiction about TV show   
   Doogie Howser, M.D.. Hannigan ended up acting opposite Doogie Howser   
   himself, Neil Patrick Harris, years later in How I Met Your Mother.   
   20. James Marsters, who played Spike, wasn’t actually British. He’s from   
   California and auditioned with a Texas accent, but producers decided it   
   would be better if the character was a Londoner. Head served as his dialect   
   coach throughout the series.   
   21. Gellar sometimes struggled with the dialogue, which was branded   
   Buffyspeak and inspired by California Valley girls.   
   22. In fact, there is a book out explaining the slang in the show – Slayer   
   Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon.   
   23. Whedon knew he wanted either Willow or Xander to come out as gay, but it   
   took him a while to eventually choose Willow.   
   24. Darla, played by Julie Benz, was supposed to die in the second episode.   
   But Whedon kept her alive to make the Buffy/Angel romance a bit more   
   interesting.   
   25. The show was shot in a warehouse and actual schools because they had   
   such a tight budget in the early days.   
   26. But producers later built their own graveyard in the warehouse’s parking   
   lot to make their life easier for shooting scenes.   
   27. The cast hated filming all of the scenes in the library because it would   
   always mean a lengthy speech for Head.   
   28. Dolly Parton was (technically) an executive producer of the show. One of   
   the executive producers, Sandy Gallin, had a longstanding production   
   partnership with the iconic country singer.   
   29. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was never up for an Emmy award in any of the   
   major categories. Well, apart from a token writing nod in 2000.   
   30. The original theme song was scrapped as Whedon was unhappy with it. So   
   he opened up a contest for local indie bands to come up with ideas. The   
   final choice was written and performed by Nerf Herder, who had been   
   recommended by Hannigan.   
   31. A few actors played more than one villain. For example, actor Camden Toy   
   played one of the Gentlemen in “Hush” in Season 4, and in Season 7 he   
   played   
   both a demon called Gnarl (in the episode “Same Time, Same Place”) and   
   Ubervamp Turok-Han.   
   32. There have been academic courses on the series, as well as books and   
   conferences dedicated to the themes of the show.   
   33. There was a reason for the vampires’ scary faces – Whedon said: “I   
   didn’t   
   think I really wanted to put a show on the air about a high-school girl who   
   was stabbing normal-looking people in the heart. I thought somehow that   
   might send the wrong message, but when they are clearly monsters, it takes   
   it to a level of fantasy that is safer.”   
   34. Whedon had a special nickname for Gellar due to how much pain she had to   
   deal with on screen. He said: “We used to call her Jimmy Stewart, because he   
   was greatest American in pain in the history of film.”   
   35. Originally, viewers were never supposed to see Buffy’s family, but it   
   was soon realised that this wouldn’t be convincing enough.   
   36. Buffy’s younger sister, Dawn, was originally meant to have special   
      
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