Casting of Buffy,Giles,Xander,Willow,Angel,Joyce,Spike,Anya,Dawn and Tara

[@alfmql]

James Marsters for Spike was one of the best castings ever!

[@anyastewart2710]

I second that! And David as Angel!

[@dougburr4192]

Haha there is no James Marsters. That is just a character Spike plays to avoid detection.

[@abdallahalameen2172]

@@dougburr4192 this comment is too underrated

[@laurenbee7990]

And Michelle was the worst. I had sooo much trouble getting (and staying) on her side.

[@8Psychotic]

These roles were cast perfectly, and this show was just incredible.

[@rozyborsalino3709]

≤🥵;🎞️✨📺✨🎞️&🗽…

[@ShadowsGathered]

That was interesting... I'm so glad they realized the original actress cast as Willow wasn't a good decision & so they re-cast her with Alyson Hannigan... I just wish they'd included Charisma Carpenter and how they cast her as Cordelia... what was up with excluding her?

[@abdallahalameen2172]

i know right. she should have been there after season 3

[@plotagonstories9892]

@@abdallahalameen2172 she was in the angel show after season 3

[@PoliteTia]

Charisma sued Joss for harassment

[@michellematthews8312]

Joss is a dick!! Yes a dick with a great story telling mind but still a dick. He basically fired Charisma because she fell pregnant, he treats people with very little respect. So many people have come forward with their story of how Joss treated them less than human, I really can no longer tolerate the look of his face it makes my blood boil.

[@kendallrivers1119]

@@abdallahalameen2172 Uh no. She went on to Angel which was an even better show than Buffy.

[@explodingplant2]

I like how the character card for Joyce is her COFFIN IN THE GROUND.

[@Becsta17]

I'd just like to thank David's neighbour for allowing me to stare at his face all these years...

[@unlinedwork]

Also, I would've liked to hear how they casted Cordelia, Faith, and Oz.

[@claudiacuttino7484]

I've gotten opinions from a lot of British people about James British accent. They all thought he did a great job and many of them said it was years before they found out that he's not really British.

[@meg_sz]

Claudia Cuttino Yeah, I'm British and I never released he was American! Then again, I know some people who say his accent is ever so slightly off, but I don't see it.

[@Chelbelle1983]

+Em979 I see it, I'm English and I see how it's off. I love James to bits but you can hear the American twang every episode he's in. He pronounces a lot of words the way Americans do, like 'cahhhhn't do that' and 'where's Dahhhhhn?' And it isn't a one off, he does it all the time. Listen to how Giles, who really is English, says 'can't' and 'Dawn', then listen to James say them. I'd say his English accent is a 7/10.

[@meg_sz]

SenoritaTorres1 Ahh yeah, now that I've re-watched some of the episodes, I can see that. I agree with your rating! His English accent is definitely better than my American one at lease XD

[@Chelbelle1983]

+Em979 hahaha well like I said, his accent is fairly passable. Really good in many places but I just know he isn't really English, because of the pronunciation.

[@NeuroticNicky87]

Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) helped James Marsters with his cockney accent as Spike's accent a lot closer to Tony's real accent.

[@esbaritenor]

Willow wasn't just gay out of no where. She became attracted to a woman that she admired, like a girl-crush. When she met Tara, she was always saying nice things about her. ("She's a really powerful wicca!" "Yes, really!") That girl-crush then evolved. It was subtle at first and then was made more obvious when Faith drew attention to it in Buffy's body. Also, more time probably passed in the Buffy world than we saw. It's never always clear how much time passes from episode to episode.

[@orbitgabby]

Lol David was just walking his dog.

[@Alar.Lillevali]

Hope Vines call that a luck.

[@hammomad001]

I couldn't imagine anyone else as tara amber benson was and is to this day my favorit singer actress and one of my favorit writers

[@BlueBirdMasquerade9]

How to become an actor like David did: 1. Walk your dog every day and wait for your neighbor to call a casting agent. Congrats you are now an actor!

[@samiridgethevoice]

Also be uncomfortably gorgeous.

[@marina22x]

I guess everyone has their own opinion on it..but I saw Willow's romance with Tara as being kind of gender blind..she fell in love with the person Tara was, the same way she did with Oz. Even when Kennedy asked Willow when she discovered she was into girls, Willow replied "it wasn't *girls*, it was *a* girl". If it weren't for the times she was referred to as being gay, it would definitely appear that she was pansexual.

[@rjwalker1726]

She's right, Anthony Stewart Head IS just it! ;)

[@annie6443]

Joyce was amazing I loved her so much. She was a great mother figure and I cried buckets when she died x Big loves to kristine sutherland x

[@marina22x]

She was definitely into guys when she lost her virginity to Oz. It just felt like the show was trying to make us forget that. She fell in love with Tara without even looking. Her love for Tara was gender blind. From where I stand, it's just hard to believe she was exclusively into women..it's almost as if the show was saying it was okay to be gay, but not bi and that people who feel attracted to both genders are obligated to choose one over the other.

[@CalliopePresents]

I don't necessarily agree with that. The episode where Oz came back, Willow commented that they could be old one day, run into each other and find each other again, so I feel like they left it open.

[@tortillion123]

favourites from most to least as character 1st: buffy, willow, angel, spike 2nd: joyce, tara, anya 3rd: dawn How the actors portrayed their roles was what made the characters most memorable; with every little nuances there was the embodiment that truly made the characters real and endearing for me. *An aspect that I loved about the show was how the unimportant background characters became either an important support or main character. ie. jennifer calendar, jonathan, warren, anya etc...

[@helenevermeersch9914]

Manque Alex : Xander un rôle déterminant aussi plus que Dawn , Oz ( seth Green qui joue dans " Ca " ) et Cornelia qui sont aussi de très bons acteurs ...

[@ffionsamuel1268]

I can't believe David Boreanaz got famous by walking his dog!!! I think I'll do that more offen!

[@Smil7001]

Wonder what he was wearing

[@GhostGardens]

Best casting ever. Casting made in heaven

[@TORI87DEC]

Agreed,she loved Oz so she could of fell in love with another guy or reconnected to Oz sometime in the future. I loved Seth and Alyson together but would of loved Willow to be with Spike,they were really hot together!

[@daughterofluthien]

"It's the best way it can happen - when a character resonates so much you can't let go of them." Frankly, it's just cruel to hear this statement come out of Joss' mouth...

[@unlinedwork]

Buffy had such good casting. The only one I didn't like was Dawn, although to be fair I really thought they shouldn't have added her character at all to the show.

[@michelleadams8891]

Me too.

[@DarqueRouse]

^^ Yeah. Who wasn't thinking: Don't jump, Buffy! Throw Dawn!

[@deadwithoutabeat]

I remember the first time I actually heard James talking without the British accent, and I'm pretty sure I fell off of my chair.

[@spuffyfan7]

thanks a lot for uploading this

[@masllinutza90]

i find rupert giles attractive....good times

[@TahmohsGirl21]

David did thank them! I have his biography and he is quoted mentioning them.

[@marmaladekamikaze]

Couldn't agree more. Season 1-4 is always going to be the best, after that the way I feel about it is that those monks(writers) not only introduced Dawn but also made the show lose some of its magic with their shoddy shenanigans.

[@marmaladekamikaze]

Thanks, I always wanted some GrilledZucchinis to tag team up and acknowledge the wisdom of the marmaladekamikaze :-D I couldn't help myself. Great minds think alike!

[@emsysuffs]

The image difference between Dawn and buffy always bothered me. Especially when buffy and Joyce are so alike.

[@divadawson7647]

Angel is my best character and I love him so much

[@DoomyCruise]

As an Irishman im not really qualified to comment on this, but i think he pulls it off brilliantly, i only found out he was american years later.

[@Monkeymosh]

They're talking about casting them and yet all the clips are from serious 3 onwards, so not showing where the characters started!

[@thomascheung6922]

i remember watch the slayer since over year!

[@jbot91]

Sarah fella and charisma carpenter are the two most beautiful women on the planet

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

What about Cordelia

[@emmanuelgoldstein9806]

I'm sure you're already aware, but before you make such sweeping statements please bear in mind that there are numerous different 'English' accents. I couldn't put a name to it, but he sounds similar to Anthony Head's usual, coarser accent, which would make sense given that he's the one who coached James Marsters for the role. Yours FAITHFULLY (honestly, if you're going to try to resemble the correct letter protocol at least do it right), yet another Englishman.

[@MercuryChild]

They didn't do a casting for Cordelia or Oz

[@minabr11]

Miss you BtVS please come back !!!!!

[@KikisChica]

Oh Spike! He's so cute and hot.. ;0)

[@Nayreel23]

he does sound English, his accent is fantastic and his word pronunciation is on point. yours sincerely, an English guy

[@cathybell4170]

Buffy is a amazing Character, she has a very big responsibility, she has a lot of presure on her to save the world from evil vampires.

[@Halfsteptheory]

I liked Tara a lot, but I agree with you about Dawn. She was the worst, and most irritating character of them all...even worse than Warren, who I found very irritating.

[@Kayer713]

Dawn was annoying and I couldn't stand Kennedy but I liked Riley in that he was the only human boyfriend we really got to see Buffy with. He kind of proved that Buffy couldn't really be happy with a human guy no matter how much she wanted to be.

[@JessCollinsss]

All the clips are pretty much from season 5.

[@CalliopePresents]

Knowing what we know now about Joss not being allowed in a room alone with Michelle, the part about Dawn hits different. One, Joss's tone when talking about her has creepy undertones I didn't pick up on before and it's sad she fought to be on the show, then was probably very disillusioned and disappointed/devastated when that happened.

[@awritergirl]

it's still weird hearing James Marsters speak without a British accent

[@Smil7001]

Funny that Sarah Michelle Gellar and Michelle Trachtenberg are both Jewish. They really have some facial similarities when they say “mom” at the end

[@YoShILoV]

best character is willow, hands down, best which i have ever see

[@JessCollinsss]

Yup, I sussed that...first time I heard him speak pretty much XD

[@Raea714]

lol That's probably true, but he grew up 45 minutes away from where I grew up and I was shocked when I found out! To this day when I hear his regular accent it just sounds wrong. Although, if you go through the seasons and listen, his accent literally changes every single season.

[@vampirfanxD]

which episode is 1:12 ?

[@beachgirl4583]

Buffy Vs Dracula. Season 5, episode 1

[@ChocolateCupcake13]

The characters in Buffy were perfectly cast, especially Spike... and Willow and Buffy and Angel and Tara and Anya and Willow and Giles. Did I miss anyone? Oh yeah Dawn. Meh.

[@helenevermeersch9914]

Oui XANDER : ALEX en France ! ...

[@6Jillybeans]

I agree being a Brit originally from North London myself. I have to say though that most things he did sound like he was. It was just certain phrases or should I say sounds that he wasn't able to get un-Americanised. Basically anything that was heavily "A" laden. Do you know what I mean? I can't explain myself well! Although "Can't" was one of them! Still I could forgive him as his skill at comedy and then drama was excellent. I preferred funny/snarky Spike though :-)

[@christina7215]

He sounds like a English man who was in America too long sometimes. He deffo did a great job. My sister is English and has lived in Australia for 10 years and she is Getting a Aussie twang … lol

[@marina22x]

Also, I loved Tara but I hated that Willow was just gay all of a sudden. Nothing against homosexual people, but Willow was clearly attracted to men at one point..I think her sexuality should've been something that no one really mentioned, so it was up to us to determine what was going on there. After Tara, Willow should have just been single. It would've been an opportunity for her to learn to stand on her own.

[@bakachew]

Willow wasn't gay out of nowhere. Season threes Dopplegangland foreshadowed Willow’s coming out journey in the fourth season. There were other episodes too, but that one is the clearest for the haters. 🙂

[@helenevermeersch9914]

Et Riley et Oz ?

[@simhedges]

@Xyberfaust - well, he's certainly not British! His accent was all over the place in the early seasons. Later on, it's still a bit odd (but then, how many 100 year old vampires are there that have lived for long periods in the UK and the US?), but it's stabilised.

[@unlinedwork]

Yeah but that was a good scene. I cried a little :)

[@Kayer713]

Yea, I think it wasn't fair for everybody to blame Buffy. It wasn't Buffy's fault that Riley needed life or death action that fighting provided. That's why he went to the vampires & that betrayal really hurt Buffy. But I agree Buffy did have love for him but he just couldn't handle that she didn't confide in him during her time of crisis. We all know she would have confided in Angel and after she comes back from the dead she even confides in Spike.

[@Willow698]

Dawn really changed the dynamics of the show for me...too much. It wasn't long after that when she was brought in that I stopped watching the show. As for Willows lovers I always thought she should have been with someone stronger. Someone who would be her equal. Oz was okay, Tara was weak and I think Kennedy came close but if I had chosen a match for her it would have been Spike. That man was strong, sarcastic, witty and loyal and couldn't be beat.

[@jwarrior343]

1. Anthony is from camden. 2. Just because you're English doesn't mean you know if someone has a bad English accent, after all, you have two (now three because of me) disagreeing with you.

[@verkyu]

and now ive just found out james marsters is not british omg

[@RetepAdam]

Especially considering he was talking about Anya.

[@kieshara27]

i love Spike!! back in school i bragged thar Spike was my boyfriend and they believed me hahahah

[@JessCollinsss]

the person who i was replying with to start with stated that they were english (if you actually bother to read the argument properly) so i replied saying that i was english too.

[@Yesica1993]

I know!

[@elle7981]

Who else likes Spike 👋

[@Wubbernines]

Holy shit James isn't British?!? Wow...

[@marina22x]

Don't get so defensive, we all love BTVS here. For the record, I'm a woman but I'm not freaking out. I just don't think that the show did a very good job at portraying Willow as a lesbian. To me, it seemed like after Tara, they were just trying to avoid looking homophobic by putting Willow in a relationship with Kennedy. I know that's not the case, but that's how it appeared to me (and many others), it would have been nice to hear Willow talk about being gay in some way other than making a joke.

[@christina7215]

How about we don’t put gays in at all? Much better.

[@michelleadams8891]

I always wanted her back with Oz

[@JessCollinsss]

Is that sarcasm? :)

[@JessCollinsss]

Oh no wait they did do tara XD

[@MercuryChild]

No one liked Riley, but Tara should have been there...

[@JessCollinsss]

The fact on one liked him doesn't mean much :/ actually i thought he was ok. Anyway, I replied to myself, Tara WAS there :)

[@baxoka]

Mi ŝatas sed mankas Cordelia.

[@JessCollinsss]

Actually it kind of does mean you have a fairly good idea. and i'm really fed up with this. I DID NOT INTEND TO CAUSE A SHITSTORM. actually i had forgotten about this argument altogether

[@JessCollinsss]

I would do except I'm not devastatingly good looking... *sigh*

[@rylraven13]

Dawn was the worst thing to happen to that show imo. I hated her character so much.

[@JessCollinsss]

I totally agree :/

[@elizabethardalan1598]

I hated the addition of Dawn on the show. Such an annoying character. Also I didn't like Michelle's acting in the role. It bothered me that they picked an actress who looked nothing like Buffy or Joyce when they looked like. Even the actor who played Buffys father looked like he could really be her father.

[@JessCollinsss]

I don't particularly like Dawn or Tara, but I don't MIND Tara as a character, i just disliked her relationship with willow. However i thought dawn was the most horribly irritating and unnecessary character EVER.

[@panchitaobrian1660]

the plotline was unnecessary...

[@JessCollinsss]

Or Riley or Tara

[@YoShILoV]

sorry, thanks for that :)

[@marina22x]

I was so upset when Dawn was introduced into the show. The fact that everyone's minds were raped just kind of bothered me...it made seasons 1-4 seem less real because all the characters' memories from those seasons would have been different because of Dawn.

[@dianewinters8628]

😎

[@JessCollinsss]

No. He doesn't sound english. Nobody in England sounds like that. He does a good job for somebody who ISN'T english, but the way he speaks still sounds the stereotypical way americans think an english person sounds. Yours sincerely, an english girl :)

[@Yesica1993]

How unbelievably nasty people on YT are, and for no reason.

[@JessCollinsss]

Were you referring to me, or the bastard who provoked me? 0:)

[@JessCollinsss]

No! He's not! He doesn't sound even slightly english!

[@JessCollinsss]

saaammmeee

[@jwarrior343]

Willow was certainly gay, they just didn't show it very well, after all when that spell from the football jersey is on her, she tries to turn the man into a woman so she could love him

[@marina22x]

But a girl can fall in love with a girl without being gay. I'll always believe that Willow was pansexual, which means that gender was insignificant in determining who she was attracted to. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED the Willow/Tara storyline. I thought their relationship developed beautifully..I just have an issue with the fact the show kept referring to her as gay when I don't really believe that was the case. Plus Kennedy was just awful.

[@Aamzy786]

Witch*

[@spikeisawesome1908]

im gonna walk my dog every day who knows i might become famous

[@SuperDarkLord7]

lol

[@0693ivana]

Never liked Dawn

[@hey75123]

I never really liked Angel, or the addition of Dawn.

[@DavorNL]

dawn rewrote the whole series in a bad way (not her fault)

[@Nitram916]

is it weird if I think that Joyce looked better than Buffy in the show?

[@JessCollinsss]

no but she really was annoying

[@jwarrior343]

'Actually it kind of does mean you have a fairly good idea. ' Yes. But you were debating with other english people, who 'have a fairly good idea' so adding that you're english is kind of pointless

[@christina7215]

They forget to mention... you have to Jewish to be cast as well.