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James Marsters comments to Dreamwatch 114 - March 2004 on David, 'Angel' and the main pressure of playing a vampire.
Is that really you swapping blows with David Boreanaz in Destiny?
Oh yeah! Toe-to-toe the whole day. Both David and I have done enough fights that it's pretty much like working with another stuntman. You know, the concerns are the same. Neither of us are professional stuntmen - we're not that good - but for actors, we're pretty damn good. And pretty experienced at this point.
What's great about working with David is that you get the acting stuff as well. And I feel like we have a really good trust between the two of us. It's never, "Oh, he's going to do that to me - I don't trust that!" If I had to do a cliff scene and the only thing keeping me from falling over the edge was David, I'd be cool with it. Seriously. You could count on it.
On David Directing:
David is a great director. He came in and he did better than any first-time director I have seen - stage, movies, TV or anything. He impressed everybody!
Has working on Angel turned out to be everything you hoped for?
I knew David Boreanaz was a great guy, but I also knew that he'd been doing the world fame thing for six years, and that can really play with your head. But the man is more a man now than when I first met him. He is a really great guy to work with. He just wants to do it and go home to his kid. He's so respectful.
It's a much happier set than I expected. I expected kind of the norm for television and what I walked into was a really supportive group of people. I'm really lucky to be in this situation and I think it's coming across on screen too. I think my work is better than it's ever been. I'm just happy.
(And a question below that can be true of David as well as James ~ Karen)
What's the hardest part of playing Spike?
The pressure to look the same as you did seven years ago, like a vampire would, becomes enormous. You just hope the audience likes the acting well enough to forget what you looked like originally.
Source: Dreamwatch 114 - March 2004
Is that really you swapping blows with David Boreanaz in Destiny?
Oh yeah! Toe-to-toe the whole day. Both David and I have done enough fights that it's pretty much like working with another stuntman. You know, the concerns are the same. Neither of us are professional stuntmen - we're not that good - but for actors, we're pretty damn good. And pretty experienced at this point.
What's great about working with David is that you get the acting stuff as well. And I feel like we have a really good trust between the two of us. It's never, "Oh, he's going to do that to me - I don't trust that!" If I had to do a cliff scene and the only thing keeping me from falling over the edge was David, I'd be cool with it. Seriously. You could count on it.
On David Directing:
David is a great director. He came in and he did better than any first-time director I have seen - stage, movies, TV or anything. He impressed everybody!
Has working on Angel turned out to be everything you hoped for?
I knew David Boreanaz was a great guy, but I also knew that he'd been doing the world fame thing for six years, and that can really play with your head. But the man is more a man now than when I first met him. He is a really great guy to work with. He just wants to do it and go home to his kid. He's so respectful.
It's a much happier set than I expected. I expected kind of the norm for television and what I walked into was a really supportive group of people. I'm really lucky to be in this situation and I think it's coming across on screen too. I think my work is better than it's ever been. I'm just happy.
(And a question below that can be true of David as well as James ~ Karen)
What's the hardest part of playing Spike?
The pressure to look the same as you did seven years ago, like a vampire would, becomes enormous. You just hope the audience likes the acting well enough to forget what you looked like originally.
Source: Dreamwatch 114 - March 2004