Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Spike actor teases epic return to show with monstrous twist
BUFFY the Vampire Slayer’s Spike actor has teased an epic return to the show with a monstrous twist.
James Marsters, 57, played vampire Spike from 1997 until 2003 and in spin-off series Angel from 1999 to 2004.
A reboot of the show is currently in the works, and James has revealed what it would take for him to reprise his character again.
Speaking on Inside of You, James recalled a conversation he had with Buffy creator Joss Whedone, saying: "I told Joss, whether it's one line or 50, I'd come, no matter where I was in the world.
"But if he wanted to film me doing Spike, he had seven years, because I'm aging and Spike's a vampire, and I don't want to play an aged Spike..."
However, James has thought of a way to get around the potential ageing issue, as how the creatures had two forms - their human face and their monster-style face.
He continued: "If there was a way, or if Spike was always in vampire face. Then that might work."
Sarah Michelle Gellar played the titular Buffy, while the cast also included Alyson Hannigan, Seth Green and David Boreanaz.
James loved working with his Buffy co-stars and recently said it was a "very inspiring" time for him.
He said: "I think that everyone that worked on Buffy really was at the top of their game, but there really was something about the mixture of everyone that really was more than the sum of their parts. I miss it very much."
The Buffy reboot was confirmed back in July 2018 but with a different cast and a new actress in the title role.
Announcing the new series, 20th Century Fox said it wanted the show to feel "richly diverse".
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Meanwhile show boss Monica Owusu-Breen said: "For some genre writers it's Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars.
"Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight and struggle and slay.
"There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel … They can't be replaced. Joss Whedon's brilliant and beautiful series can't be replicated.
"I wouldn't try to. But here we are, 20 years later… and the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer… And that's all I can say."