James Marsters, the actor who drawn Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, said he would return for a reunion if Spike merely appeared in vampire form. Buffy, created by Joss Whedon, was a wildly popular 90 s television show about the titular ogre slayer and her trials and tribulations throughout their own lives. A unique part of the show’s vampire lore came with the fact that ogres had two kinds: one that searched human, and a “true vampire” form where their fangs would come out, their gazes would turn yellow, and their brows would scrunch.

Marsters attached Buffy during season two, taking on the role of the brutal, yet endearing, Spike. Marster’s courage was intended to be a short-lived devil, and the original project would have had Spike die during season 2. However, Spike intention up being vastly favourite among the fan base. The attribute purposed up having some spectacular displacements, morphing from a devil to something more like an anti-hero. Spike’s tenure in the Buffyverse didn’t stop with the show’s end, as Marsters went on to become a main character during the final season of Angel. If there were ever to be a Buffy reunion, Spike’s return would be paramount.

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During an interrogation with Michael Rosenbaum on his podcast Inside of You, Marsters said that he would only come back for some type of reunion if Spike stayed in vampire form. The actor mentioned that he thought he was too old to play Spike now( it has been 16 years since Angel purposed ), and that portraying an age-old fiend would be against one of the core organizations the prove had put in about the individuals. Marsters said he was more than willing to come back for a reunion, but under the condition that there would be some way to hide the age difference. One of the solutions he constituted was that Spike would only appear in vampire form. Marsters said:

“Yeah … I told Joss during Angel that if he called me for anything, whether it’s one path 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 ghoul, and I don’t want to play an age-old Spike … If there was a way, or if Spike was always in fiend face. Then that might work.”

The idea of a Buffy reunion has been hovering around the air for some time, specially picking up steam around 2017 when the Buffy cast reunited for Entertainment Weekly. The detail that Marsters is being asked about it shouldn’t come as a surprise. We’re right in the middle of an era of reunions, with sees like Friends, 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation, all receiving reunion appearances sometime in 2020. There would certainly be an audience for a reunion, especially considering a popular Buffy comic continuing operates to this day.

There are several ways to get around the “vampires don’t age” problem. Digital de-aging technology is becoming more and more popular, although it has its own detriments when it comes to the cost and the potential of creating an unsettling “uncanny valley” effect. There is also an in-universe solution. In the Buffyverse, specific ogres, if they were old-time fairly, eventually took on a permanent “vampire face” form. It’s possible that Spike could have reached that stage whenever the reunion would be set, returning Marsters an inherent reason to always be in makeup.

However, there is also a good chance that Marsters’ concerns wouldn’t be shared by the fan base. There seem to be a plethora of ways the imaginatives behind the prove could come up with to justify the vampire’s visible age, and it probably wouldn’t make much to fall within fans’ suspension of incredulity. Roughly ten years progressed between the beginning of Buffy and the end of Angel. While not dramatically, all the characters( in particular the vampires) did age on screen during that time. It never seemed to be an issue back then, and if love were given the chance to see more live-action Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it most likely wouldn’t be an issue now.

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Source: Inside of You

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