From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.avclub.com/article/adam-busch-knows-buffy-fans-think-   
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   Adam Busch knows that Buffy fans think Warren’s terrible   
      
   Because he played Warren, the leader of the Trio and the murderer of Tara   
   (Amber Benson), Adam Busch’s interactions with Buffy The Vampire Slayer fans   
   can be tense. Warren was easily one of the show’s most despicable   
   characters: a human with a deep hatred for women. Since his Buffy days,   
   Busch has starred on the TBS sitcom Men At Work and done a stint on USA’s   
   Colony. As for his relationship with Benson, well, they’ve had further   
   filmmaking adventures together post-Buffy and even dated for a period.   
      
   1. On average, how much time per week do you spend being recognized for,   
   thinking of, or talking about Buffy?   
      
   Adam Busch: It’s interesting because I’ve been working since I was a kid. I   
   started at Nickelodeon, and people always think they know me or they   
   recognize me. It’s often not, “Oh, that’s Warren from Buffy.” It’s   
   usually   
   like, “Did we go to college together?” or, “Do I know you?” And I’ll   
   say no.   
   Then what happens is they realize what it is they know me from, and   
   immediately, their face goes from excitement to anger and rage and a   
   loathing. [That] has been, for me, an interesting experience because usually   
   being recognized comes with some form of flattery [or] excitement, and   
   people are very comfortable expressing their anger at me for what Warren did   
   to Tara. It does happen a lot. Whatever I’m working on, there will always be   
   some question about, “Do I feel bad for killing Tara?”   
      
   I think it’s just because of the personal relationship that people have with   
   the show that I feel like those lines are blurred when they see my face, and   
   there’s no hesitation to just let me know how they feel or say something   
   like, “Oh, you’re awful,” or, “You’re terrible.” It’s caused me   
   to put a bit   
   of a guard up.   
      
   2. What is your fondest memory of filming?   
      
   AB: I really liked working with Jeff Kober, who played Rack, the demon who   
   sold drugs. He was just such an incredible actor, and the scenes we did   
   together felt like a play. We would do it a million different ways. I mean,   
   the whole experience. I know that’s such a cheesy answer. But I got to do   
   more on that show than anyone ever gets to do in a career. To get to go from   
   a good guy to a bad guy, to do comedy, to do serious, to do science fantasy,   
   and then something grounded in a topic that’s even more relevant now than it   
   was then. [That] is why I think their hatred of Warren is justified.   
      
   There was a period there where it felt like a movie, and it felt like I   
   couldn’t tell if I was changing what I was doing to adapt to the writers or   
   if they were writing to me. It felt very personal. Going down that journey   
   and trying to always find some sense of humanity there. I feel like the   
   things that Warren had to deal with are universal. He just handled them so   
   wrong every time.   
      
   3. What’s your personal favorite—and least favorite—Buffy episode?   
      
   AB: My favorite is “Hush,” hands down. That was the episode I could just   
   watch over and over again. Doug Jones and the way he held his body and just   
   that whole episode, I thought was so brilliant. It was like a play. And I   
   like when things are like a play.   
      
   4. Do you have a least favorite?   
      
   AB: To be controversial, I’ll say the musical because we weren’t in it. It   
   was shot at the time that we were shooting. It was this week break we had to   
   take, and I remember Danny [Strong], Tom [Lenk], and I were pitching to   
   Marti Noxon this evil Trio boy band and singing for her. She was like,   
   “That’s   
   great.” And then nothing ever happened. We really wanted to be in the   
   musical, really really bad.   
      
   5. So it’s more out of personal—   
      
   AB: Jealousy because everyone was having so much fun and singing and   
   dancing, and we weren’t in it because they had been working on it for so   
   many months before we were even there that wasn’t part of the storyline.   
   Oh—maybe, I’ll say, Amber [Benson] and I only had one scene together. Even   
   her death scene was shot on different days at different times. So we never   
   interacted very much except on 9/11, when I was flying back from New York   
   and I landed at 9 a.m. in L.A. to work, and everything was happening and a   
   lot of the actors couldn’t work. Half the crew couldn’t. No one knew what   
   to   
   do. So half of us were just going through the motions of having a day. That   
   was the one bit of a scene that Amber and I were like, “We could do that.”   
   I   
   remember we shot and we’d stand around video village, where there was a TV   
   that had the news on, and we’d all just stare at the news. And then we’d   
   remember what we were doing and go back to filming, and then they just ended   
   the day because it was too much. So I’ll say whatever episode that was.   
      
   6. If you could have played any other character on Buffy, who would it have   
   been?   
      
   AB: I wanted to be Spike so bad. Outside of Jeff, those were my favorite   
   scenes, working with Jim [Marsters], because he, like me, takes it so   
   seriously, maybe even too seriously. That’s the kind of science fiction I   
   like, and that’s what Joss does so well. It doesn’t matter how fantastical   
   the scenario. It’s always grounded in, like, “You’re just a hurt nerd who   
   can’t get a girl,” or, “You’re just an upset teenager who’s had too   
   much.”   
   [James] was so like that, and we both rarely got the chance to work   
   together, but when we did, it felt really important. I remember one scene   
   where he’s laying on a table and I’m trying to do something to him. And   
   I’m   
   standing and he’s laying on the table, and each time they yell “Action!”   
   he   
   would just go [Makes gasping noise.]. And then when it was over, he’d go,   
   “Ah.” “What are you doing? Do you have indigestion?” And he’s like,   
   “Vampires don’t breathe, mate.”   
      
   7. Who’s the most underrated character on the show?   
      
   AB: Who is Joel Grey? Who did he play?   
      
   AVC: Doc. You obviously loved working with Rack as well, who is a sort of   
   underrated character.   
      
   AB: Oh, yeah, I can totally go with that because he is very much a catalyst   
   for a lot of things that happened. He doesn’t judge. He’s almost a priest   
   who lets you do what you want. “You want this? Fine. But I should warn you.   
   But I’m going to give it to you.”   
      
   8. The sixth season is pretty controversial among fans. How do you feel   
   about it?   
      
      
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