Why doesn't Smg go to cons?

She is the star. She needs that air of mystery. The rest are free to whore themselves out 😛
 
Mainly because Sarah hasn't wanted to be identified with that single role (good luck with that, darlin'!) Actors want to be considered for many different types of roles. It helps make them available to play more diverse characters, which simply means that they work more. Sarah playing Buffy wasn't anything like Robert Downey jr playing Iron Man. She couldn't command multi-million dollar pay to play post adolescent demon fighters, so she didn't want to be just identified as someone who could only play a post adolescent demon fighter.

Unfortunately, Buffy was Sarah's role of a lifetime. She is cursed to always be Buffy to her fans. No doubt that's a large part of why she decided to devote herself to being a full time mom rather than keep chasing roles she wasn't ever going to be considered for in the first place.
 
white avenger said:
Mainly because Sarah hasn't wanted to be identified with that single role (good luck with that, darlin'!) Actors want to be considered for many different types of roles. It helps make them available to play more diverse characters, which simply means that they work more. Sarah playing Buffy wasn't anything like Robert Downey jr playing Iron Man. She couldn't command multi-million dollar pay to play post adolescent demon fighters, so she didn't want to be just identified as someone who could only play a post adolescent demon fighter.

Unfortunately, Buffy was Sarah's role of a lifetime. She is cursed to always be Buffy to her fans. No doubt that's a large part of why she decided to devote herself to being a full time mom rather than keep chasing roles she wasn't ever going to be considered for in the first place.
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That's sad for her.
 
Honestly though I think a lot of it also has to do with because she doesn't HAVE to. Look at the actors who don't do the cons. They're the ones who are working the most and/or who have made the most money: SMG, Alyson, & David. Now maybe they also have personal reasons as well, but they simply don't need that extra income from doing cons. I'm not saying that the ones who do cons do it just for the income, I'm guessing they like doing it as well (although probably not all of them, sometimes a job is a job, that's true of all of us, let's stop romantucizing them, they're human), but I think it's definitely a big factor. They're actors. It's part of their job.
 
She's got other stuff going on. She's married with kids and still works a fair amount. I do think she has come to be happy with being always known as Buffy, but she doesn't feel like she needs to still be Buffy. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but in comparison James Marsters embraces and continues to pride himself on always being Spike, so he always goes to cons.
 
I think it's partly financial (no need for it) and partly not wanting to. I mean look, fans can be great, but fans can also be pretty intense and abusive/expect their favorites to conform to their opinions of the show. I also imagine cons are quite draining, you meet and greet with a lot of people!

It seems she's fine being associated with the role of a life time, to me, but I don't think she wants to spend her days re-hashing the past and who can blame her really? Some people are like that, it seems she's more focused on the present and future projects.
 
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