TVG: So what brought you to Sunnydale?

Landau: I'd been attacked by a mob in Prague. I was weak and near death, like a junkie who needs a fix -- the fix, of course, being blood. And Angel turns out to be the cure-all. [Spike brought Drusilla to town to drain Angel's life energy into her, but Buffy stepped in to save her, uh, man.]

TVG: So now it's all worked out, and you're the scariest romantic triangle since the Archie comics.

Landau: In a funny way, [Drusilla and Spike] have, like, a healthy relationship. I mean, we do go out and kill people, but we have a loving, giving relationship. But with Angel, it's almost like an incestuous, abusive relationship. That's why when I chained him to a bed and burned him with holy water [earlier this season], it was sort of like a reversal, a strange cross between sexuality and power.

TVG: Hey, it served him right.

Boreanaz: Angel has a very sarcastic side, and he knows how to torment Spike. Every time Spike pushes my buttons, I push his buttons. He's all talk. It's like tennis, and Drusilla is in the middle, watching.

Landau: And I'm kind of enjoying the bullfighting -- over me!

Marsters: She has that power to keep Spike and me at odds. Yet if she wasn't in the room, we'd probably end up killing each other.

Boreanaz: Everybody's waiting for a showdown.

TVG: David, you've been with the show since the low-budget early days. How has success changed Buffy?

Boreanaz: [Back then] everything was a bit more chaotic. We had to go to locations for graveyards [in downtown L.A.].

Landau: A real graveyard?

Boreanaz: Yeah. Unbelievable! Now we have more money to play with. I think there's more intensity now as far as how the characters are interwoven.

Landau: It's really been sort of obscenely fun to work on.

Marsters: We're always saying, "How can we get sex into this?"

TVG: A lot of people think a vampire show is more into violence than sex.

Landau: We push the envelope, but really, the level of gore is not very much.

Marsters: I have trouble with violence. That's not what Joss is about.

TVG: It's always morally clear that the vampires are the bad guys.

Marsters: We vampires, we may be funny, but we are not good people.

TVG: It's like ["Pulp Fiction" director] Quentin Tarantino's motto: Funny and scary -- two great tastes that taste great together.

Landau: [Tarantino] said he likes the show a lot. We do [blend funny and scary]. We're so inside these characters that the logic of them feels like, "Oh, this is normal. I'm poking my doll's eyes out, and that's fine." You know?

Boreanaz: James hums when he gets into it. And I do a golf swing. [Juliet's] dancing with headphones. And then we all come together.

TVG: It's all about togetherness. And biting people. As Spike puts

it, humans are just Happy Meals with legs. So what's next for you guys?

Landau: Joss says if we let anything out, it won't happen. What's fun is we're unpredictable.

Marsters: I love how he presents the audience with something they desperately want to see -- like Angel and Buffy getting together -- and then takes it away. He delights in denying them that.

TVG: After Buffy slept with Angel, he suddenly turned cold and evil.

Boreanaz: I'm the jerk who never phones the morning after.

TVG: In the last episode it looked as if fans were going to be denied the whole relationship forever; apparently, Buffy stabbed Angel and killed him. Not that a lot of girls wouldn't sympathize.

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