From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/18/alyson-hann   
   gan-on-buffy-and-wonder-woman-trolls-im-just-like-dude-really   
      
      
   When Alyson Hannigan reunited with the rest of the cast for Buffy the   
   Vampire Slayer’s 20th anniversary, it felt at first as though no time had   
   passed at all.   
      
   “It was an absolute blast,” she says. “I hadn’t seen a lot of the   
   people   
   since we wrapped. It’s sort of like one of those things where no time has   
   passed. And then, when everyone was talking about their aches and pains and   
   backaches, it was like, ‘Oh yeah, we are 20 years older.’”   
      
   Hannigan is set to appear at pop culture convention Comic-Con’s Australian   
   iteration, Oz Comic-Con, in Melbourne this July. It will be her first   
   Australian appearance and has coincided with the anniversary of Joss Whedon’s   
   television show.   
      
   Before Buffy, Hannigan was a struggling actor, booking weekly spots on TV   
   series such as Touched By An Angel. But, when she landed the role of Buffy   
   Summer’s closest friend, Willow Rosenberg – who grows from a timid high   
   school girl to a powerful witch through the series – she became synonymous   
   with one of the strong female characters that Whedon is most renowned for.   
      
   Anthony Stuart Head, who played Rupert Giles in the show, recently described   
   Whedon’s show as a feminist parable, one that was all-inclusive. But   
   although the series undoubtedly paved the way for far more strong female   
   leads in Hollywood, the recent controversy over the critically acclaimed   
   Wonder Woman proves we’re not there yet.   
      
   Keyboard warriors lurking in dark corners of the internet have objected to   
   all-female screenings of the film, using its popularity among women as an   
   opportunity to tear down the character herself.   
      
   Hannigan has no time for it. “[They’re] picking this amazing character   
   apart   
   because she’s a woman ... it’s just so frustrating,” she says, of Wonder   
   Woman.   
      
   “That guy who’s sitting there at his computer ... I’m just like, ‘Dude,   
   really?!’ Your life must be really frustrating if you find fault in an   
   awesome superhero because they’re not a man.”   
      
   Willow’s relationship with another female character, Tara (Amber Benson),   
   was complex and elegantly crafted, and one of the first times that a   
   relationship between two women was really explored on prime time television.   
      
   Hannigan remembers it as a “beautiful” pairing: “It wasn’t about it   
   being   
   two women; it was a beautiful relationship that happened to be between two   
   woman ... why can’t we all just be people?”   
      
   Buffy struck her in more personal ways as well. A famous early episode, 'Out   
   of Sight, Out of Mind' – about a lonely high school girl – was one that she   
   particularly connected with.   
      
   “Having not had a good experience in my personal high school life, to be   
   able to be part of a show that reflects that – it just resonated so   
   profoundly with me. I was just over the moon to have been a part of it,” she   
   says. “That storyline of the girl not being seen in high school, and then   
   she literally disappears – it was like, ‘Oh my God’. I thought, ‘Joss   
   saw me   
   in high school’.”   
      
   Hannigan has starred in all kinds of productions, from the film 'American   
   Pie' to a stage show of When 'Harry Met Sally'. But Buffy is still why she’s   
   stopped in the street.   
      
   “It’s such a gift,” she says. “The fact that it still happens all the   
   time,   
   it’s never lost on me. It’s so touching – I’m so grateful that I got   
   to be a   
   part of that.   
      
   “That’s why I love television so much, because it was all of those things   
   for me growing up, when I needed it.”   
      
      
      
      
   David   
      
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