From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/31/alyson-hannigan-and-amber-   
   enson-open-up-about-beautiful-romance-on-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/   
      
   Buffy actresses Amber Benson and Alyson Hannigan have opened up about their   
   groundbreaking Buffy the Vampire Slayer role.   
      
   The pair played fan-favorite lesbian witches Willow Rosenburg and Tara   
   Maclay on the cult series – one of the first same-sex couples to appear in a   
   TV show aimed at teenagers.   
      
   The two actresses reunited with the rest of the Buffy cast this week for an   
   Entertainment Weekly shoot.   
      
   In an interview in EW, out today, Hannigan explained that she did not   
   initially twig when she was told by show creator Joss Whedon that her   
   character, who initially dated men, would get a girlfriend.   
      
   She said: “We were walking in the parking lot, and [Joss] just said,   
   ‘Willow’s   
   going to get a friend, and she’s going to be a special friend.’ I was like,   
   ‘Okay, great!’ I didn’t really know what that meant.”   
      
   Of the years-long plot, she said: “You got to see the journey, so that, I   
   think, was very groundbreaking, and … I’ve never had anything but just such   
   a positive reaction.   
      
   Of the years-long plot, she said: “You got to see the journey, so that, I   
   think, was very groundbreaking, and … I’ve never had anything but just such   
   a positive reaction.   
      
   “It’s just been such a profound thing for people who were going through the   
   same thing or just terrified of what they were going to have to go through   
   and just to see somebody that they had been watching for so many years to   
   get to not feel so alone, it’s like it’s such a gift to be able to be part   
   of that.”   
      
   She added: “There definitely hadn’t been a gay character that had been on a   
   show from the beginning [before Buffy]. This was a character that you got to   
   see the journey, that was very groundbreaking.   
   “The fact that it was such a non-issue was so great, and that’s how it   
   should be.”   
      
   Benson said: “It was a beautiful relationship, and it wasn’t gratuitous, it   
   wasn’t about two girls making out, it was about two people who both happen   
   to identify as female who fall in love.   
      
   “They were good to each other, they treated each other way [?]. It was a   
   normal relationship. You normalize it, and make it okay, because it is   
   okay.“We   
   got a lot of young letters… there were a lot of young people who felt very   
   isolated, and to see two characters on a television show be accepted by a   
   group of peers changed the game."   
      
   “They already loved Willow but then to see that Willow became even more   
   somebody that they could identify with it made it okay for them to be who   
   they were.”   
      
   “It’s saying, if you find somebody to love, you’re just lucky – it   
   doesn’t   
   matter the gender, the sex or whatever – if you find somebody who gets you   
   and you get them, you’re so lucky.Showrunner Joss Whedon added: “Tara came   
   into the narrative because I was like, how do you follow Seth Green?"   
      
   “Well, Willow’s in college, so maybe she finds a girlfriend. That was an   
   important thing for people to see, but really I wasn’t thinking about that!   
   As much as I wanted to make a feminist show, I really missed a lot of what   
   was going to be important abut the show. I thought that was just what you’d   
   do.   
      
           [video of some of the text.  Amber looks better than ever! Alyson is   
   looking older than the rest of her female cast mates.]   
      
      
      
   David   
      
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