From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   https://myspace.com/article/2017/3/6/james-marsters-spike-buffy-   
   ampire-slayer-20-anniversary-interview?   
      
      
   TV's original bad boy vampire bares his soul and talks all things 'Buffy,'   
   20 years later.   
      
   Buffy’s a legend. There’s no going around this. A show that’s turning 20   
   years old this week has changed the face of television and has yet to meet   
   its match. And surely a show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer couldn’t have   
   been a critic darling without a remarkable vampire or two. Spike (played by   
   theater trained James Masters) is still one of the most remarkable TV   
   vampires in history, and we had to dig deep into his grave to uncover all of   
   the secrets behind the making of the cult series.   
      
      
   The Audition   
   I was called in at the very last minute. Apparently they’ve been looking for   
   Spike for a few months and haven’t found anyone. They were three days away   
   from filming when they cast me. I think what happened was Joss Whedon, the   
   creator of the show, just told the casting director to scrape the bottom of   
   the barrel and see what he found. And they found me at the bottom of that   
   barrel.   
      
   I’d just come to Los Angeles, I only had a few television credits (I come   
   from theater). And no one knew who I was. For me [the audition] was a pretty   
   regular experience. I auditioned at the casting director’s office and then   
   got a call back to the Buffy stages and read for Joss and the other writers   
   of the show. I think the thing that won me the role was that I clicked with   
   Juliet Landau, who played my girlfriend Drusilla. I was gonna be her boy toy   
   for five episodes, and then Angel was going to kill me off. Because me and   
   Juliet are both theater actors, we have the same vocabulary and we were very   
   comfortable with each other right away. If it hadn’t been for Juliet liking   
   me, you’d be talking to someone else today.   
      
           [Much more at the link]   
      
      
   David   
      
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