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Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry talk "Buffy", apparently Perry was the reason for Swanson taking the part.
It was all Luke Perry’s fault, Kristy Swanson said.
The actress who starred in the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer said it was her co-star who brought her into the role.
Both actors were at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this year and got to re-visit the love there still is for the movie.
“You never do know,” Swanson told the Sun of how a project that takes up months of an actor’s life will be received by audiences. “Any time you’re making your movie you always work your hardest ... and expect the worst and hope for the best. We hoped it would do well in the movie theatres. It didn’t. But the movie ended up turning into sort of a cult classic.”
Swanson was 22 when Buffy was filmed and she remembers it as being a great time in her life — beyond being physically demanding and being shot almost entirely at night it gained her life-long friendships with Perry and Paul Reubens.
Something unique for its time happened with Buffy and the course it took, Perry said.
He doesn’t figure anyone knew what would happen — failing at the box office but becoming a frequent rental at the local Blockbuster Video, and then finding yet another new life on TV screens “wasn’t the normal trajectory.”
It kind of blows his mind when people still come up to him today to talk about Buffy.
“Especially today, when the life span of stuff is so short and everything kind of comes about quickly and then it’s gone,” he said. I think it happens less and less now with movies, where people sort of claim them in that way. I feel totally flattered by it. When your work gets embraced in that way, it’s a good feeling.”
What it comes down to is the script, both said.
Swanson said the idea is a universal one — the normal teen girl wanted to be “more powerful ... wanted people to like her” and realized she had to “accept who (she is) and just roll with it.”
Perry said, “Any movie that gets watched by people time and again, it’s because they like the story ... it always comes back to the story.”
report by calgarysun;
http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/04/1...t-calgary-comic-and-entertainment-expo-friday
Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry talk "Buffy", apparently Perry was the reason for Swanson taking the part.
It was all Luke Perry’s fault, Kristy Swanson said.
The actress who starred in the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer said it was her co-star who brought her into the role.
Both actors were at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this year and got to re-visit the love there still is for the movie.
“You never do know,” Swanson told the Sun of how a project that takes up months of an actor’s life will be received by audiences. “Any time you’re making your movie you always work your hardest ... and expect the worst and hope for the best. We hoped it would do well in the movie theatres. It didn’t. But the movie ended up turning into sort of a cult classic.”
Swanson was 22 when Buffy was filmed and she remembers it as being a great time in her life — beyond being physically demanding and being shot almost entirely at night it gained her life-long friendships with Perry and Paul Reubens.
Something unique for its time happened with Buffy and the course it took, Perry said.
He doesn’t figure anyone knew what would happen — failing at the box office but becoming a frequent rental at the local Blockbuster Video, and then finding yet another new life on TV screens “wasn’t the normal trajectory.”
It kind of blows his mind when people still come up to him today to talk about Buffy.
“Especially today, when the life span of stuff is so short and everything kind of comes about quickly and then it’s gone,” he said. I think it happens less and less now with movies, where people sort of claim them in that way. I feel totally flattered by it. When your work gets embraced in that way, it’s a good feeling.”
What it comes down to is the script, both said.
Swanson said the idea is a universal one — the normal teen girl wanted to be “more powerful ... wanted people to like her” and realized she had to “accept who (she is) and just roll with it.”
Perry said, “Any movie that gets watched by people time and again, it’s because they like the story ... it always comes back to the story.”
report by calgarysun;
http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/04/1...t-calgary-comic-and-entertainment-expo-friday
