From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.avclub.com/article/amber-benson-talks-books-buffy-vam   
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   Amber Benson is well aware that her role as Tara on three seasons of Buffy   
   The Vampire Slayer is still her biggest claim to fame. Luckily, she’s   
   perfectly content with that, and in the decade since that show ended, she’s   
   carved out a niche for herself as a talented multi-hyphenate: actor (Dust   
   Up, the web series Morganville), director (the sci-fi comedy Drones, written   
   by The Thrilling Adventure Hour creators Ben Acker and Ben Blacker), and   
   author (the five-book Calliope Reaper-Jones series). Currently, she’s   
   promoting her new novel, The Witches Of Echo Park. When we interviewed her,   
   she was right in the middle of her book tour, exhausted, but still very game   
   to talk about her life, her writing, and the benefits of being on a show   
   with an incredibly devoted fan base.   
      
   The A.V. Club: At this point in the middle of the tour, you must have a   
   mental spreadsheet of answers to the same endless, Buffy-related questions.   
      
   Amber Benson: There are a lot of Buffy-related questions. Luckily, I’m one   
   of those people that’s actually happy to talk about the stuff that I’ve   
   done   
   in the past. I do feel like it’s a springboard that allowed me to do all the   
   stuff I do now, so I’m always down to chat about Buffy. I know there are a   
   lot of people, a lot of actors who are doing something, and they’re like,   
   “I   
   don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about what I’m working on   
    now.” I’m not that girl. I’ll talk about anything. I’ll just talk   
   about   
   anything anyways.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   AB: I was hit on by an 18-year-old today on the airplane. I had a special   
   friend. I am 38 years old, and the kid in the seat next to me was very sweet   
   and was like, “Well, you know—” and I was like, “I’m 20 years older   
   than   
   you.”   
      
   AVC: He was hitting on you?   
      
   AB: He was hitting on me. And I have no makeup on. I didn’t have a shower   
   that morning. I looked like crud. I was like, “Really? You’re so sweet. You   
   must be blind.” But he was so sweet. We ended up chatting the whole time. I   
   was like, “You’re very sweet. But I’m 20—20!—years older than you. I   
   was 20   
   when you were born. I was almost an adult!”   
      
   {more of the interview at the link}   
      
   http://daviderl.com/Amber Benson.html .   
   http://daviderl31.blogspot.com/   
      
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