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   ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ star spills behind the scenes secrets   
      
   JOSS Whedon was livid that Buffy fans had warmed to the character Spike, who   
   was played by James Marsters. The creator even took it out on the actor.   
      
   JAMES Marsters is reflecting on his iconic, bleached-blond super villain   
   character Spike 20 years after Buffy The Vampire Slayer premiered.   
      
   “To Joss Whedon, evil is not cool and I really respect that — Spike was put   
   up as cool and evil only because he was a disposable character,” Marsters,   
   55, told Page Six. “He was supposed to die.”   
      
   The actor told us that Whedon had intended for Spike to get killed off by   
   Angel, the show’s moral vampire, early on. Whedon, who created the show, was   
   not happy when fans began to like Spike.   
      
   “It was not supposed to be romantic, but the audience was responding that   
   way and Joss was freaking out,” he told us. “He backed me up against a wall   
   one day and said, ‘I don’t care how popular you are, you are dead.’”   
      
   He continued, “Spike was the wrong boyfriend. Spike was not ready for Buffy   
   during the run of the show. He was way below her and because the reaction   
   was so strong … they had to do something dramatic to prove that wasn’t   
    true.”   
      
   The move, which became one of the show’s biggest controversies, came in the   
   sixth season of the series when Spike attempts to rape Buffy in the bathroom   
   of her home before she fights him off.   
      
   “It was the hardest day of my professional career. It was a horrible day,”   
   Marsters told us.   
      
   “I personally don’t like to watch that stuff. I will not go to a movie if I   
   know that’s in there. I will turn the TV off if it pops up. I will pass on   
   auditions if that's what they want me to do, but I was contracted to do it.”   
      
   Marsters says the storyline came from one of the female writers who threw   
   herself on an ex-boyfriend in college in hopes of him taking her back.   
      
   “She went to his apartment and was convinced if they made love one more time   
   that everything would be fine,” he explained. “He had to physically push   
   her   
   off and that just crushed her and stuck with her all her life.”   
      
   The actor says he has no regrets about doing the scene and despite the mixed   
   reviews, it set Spike up for his “journey toward redemption”.   
      
      
      
   David   
      
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