*Buffy Facts*

 

Some Buffy facts, you might not knew yet, or some that you like to read again, you can find below!

 

Auditions & Roles related facts:

• Series star Sarah Michelle Gellar initially auditioned for the role of Cordelia Chase, and Charisma Carpenter, who plays Cordelia, auditioned for the role of Buffy.
   
• Nathan Fillion (Caleb) originally auditioned for the role of Angel when the show was first being cast in late 1996.
   
• Julie Benz tried out for the part of Buffy and ended up in the part of Darla.
   
• Elizabeth Anne Allen, who had a semi-recurring role as the witch Amy Madison, originally auditioned for the role of Buffy.
   
• Other actresses considered for the lead role as Buffy also included Katie Holmes and Selma Blair.
   
• Bianca Lawson, who played Kendra the Vampire Slayer in season 2, originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia.
   
• The characters of Spike, Oz, Faith, Wesley and Drusilla were all supposed to be killed off, but have ended up living long past their initial storylines. Also, the characters of Jenny and Joyce were supposed to be killed off sooner than they were.
   
• Danny Strong (Jonathan) originally auditioned for the role of Xander.
   
• Originally, Joss Whedon didn't want either of Buffy's parents to appear as characters on the show. Accepting that that could get complicated, he settled on just having her mother, Joyce, appear. Joyce ended up staying on the show for five seasons.
   
• Christian Kane (Lindsey) originally auditioned for the role of Riley Finn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Show creator Joss Whedon liked Kane so much that he asked him to play the character of Lindsey on Angel instead.
   
• Anya was only meant to appear in the episode "The Wish" but was brought back for "Doppelgängland" where she was made more humorous. When the producers realized how funny Emma Caulfield was they simply kept bringing her back, until she was made a regular cast member (including appearing in the opening credits) at the start of season five.

 

Pilot Related Facts:

• There was a pilot directed by Joss Whedon and financed out of his own pocket to sell the show to the networks.
   
• The plot is fairly similar to "Welcome to the Hellmouth", though Angel, Jesse and the Master don't appear. 
   
• Also, it's only half an hour long. 
   
• The main differences from the show as aired are the sets and casting. 
   
• While most of the principals are in place, Riff Regan plays Willow and Stephen Tobolowsky plays Principal Flutie. They were replaced by Alyson Hannigan and Ken Lerner, respectively in the actual show. 
   
• The library that appears is not the set from the show, rather it is the actual library from Torrance High School where much of the Sunnydale High material was filmed.

 

Appearances related facts:

 

• Seth Green is the only cast member to have acted in both the TV series and the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Although he was cut from the feature film, but still appeared on the videotape box.
   
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan are the only cast members who have appeared in every episode of the series.
 
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy), Nicholas Brendon (Xander), Alyson Hannigan (Willow), Anthony Head (Giles), and Kristine Sutherland (Joyce) are the only actors to have appeared in all seven seasons.
 
Season seven's "Conversations With Dead People" is the only episode in which Nicholas Brendon does not appear.
 
Kali Rocha, who showed up in the sixth season as vengeance demon Halfreck, first appeared in a flashback episode in the fifth season as Cecily, the woman who spurned William, causing him to become the vampire known as Spike. Having already cast Rocha as Halfreck, the writers knew the loyal fans would immediately recognize her, so as an inside joke between them, when Halfreck first saw Spike, she said, "William?"

 

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