James Marsters Press Archive

source: Los Angeles Times
published: August 17, 2000
author: Philip Brandes

Amid endless debate over the proliferating horror of school shootings, one perspective in short supply is that of the most impacted demographic–teenagers. The Blank Theatre Company compensates for some of that neglect with an all-professional staging of 19-year-old Victor Kaufold’s “The Why” at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre.

source: Variety.com
published: August 16, 2000
place: Hudson Mainstage Theatre; 88 seats
author: Steven Oxman

A Blank Theatre Co. presentation in association with the Hudson Mainstage Theatre of a one-act play by Victor Kaufold. Producers, Noah Wyle, Christopher Steele. Directed, designed by Daniel Henning.

date: July 2000
place: Heathrow, London, UK
transcripted by: Bendy / Lilycat (thank you)

James: The thing is, is that if Spike continued down the road that he was on from the first season that you saw him as a villain? If he doesn’t kill Buffy, he becomes pathetic; you know what I mean? he becomes completely hapless– after the fifteenth time its like oh my god…so you gotta find a way to stop him from trying any more…

source: zap2it.com
published: October 31, 2000
author: Kate O’Hare

“This was an interesting week and a half, man,” says James Marsters of his latest episode as vampire Spike on the WB’s “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.”

“God .. I don’t know how to say … I think anybody who’s had a metamorphosis in their life is going to be very interested in this arc, anybody who feels that they’ve transformed in their life, trying to become themselves.”

source: Yahoo chat
published: September 22, 2000
author: n/a
credit: www.jamesmarsters-justmagic.com

James: Hello everybody, calling from Los Angeles, thanks for waiting!

Yahoo_Host1: What is Macy’s Passport all about?

James: Macys Passport is all about continuing AIDS awareness, making sure people understand there is still a large epidemic here in America.

source: Houston Chronicle
published: March 5, 2000
author: Mike McDaniel

In the history of television villainy, there’s never been a creature quite like Spike, the kicking, stabbing, bloodsucking, English-accented, leather-layered, white-blond bad boy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

He leaves us in stitches.

source: TV Guide Online
published: October 26, 2000
author: Daniel R. Coleridge

Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s James Marsters says he’s tired of his defanged character, Spike, pussyfooting around Sunnydale like a declawed kitten.

source: SFX Magazine, issue 70
published: November 2000
author: Jayne Dearsley & Ed Gross
transcripted by: Nightbird

Since the night he drove – or should that be gatecrashed? – into the town of Sunnydale with loopy vamp girlfriend Drusilla in tow, Spike has proved himself to be the coolest, blondest, biggest bad-ass vampire since… well, forever. Once only a guest star, he became a regular in season four and has now grown into one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s most popular characters…

source: Modesto Bee
published: May 14, 2000
author: Roger W. Hoskins (Bee staff writer)

Can an actor from Modesto break into Hollywood’s circle of fame?

Davis High School graduate James Marsters is making the grade by playing the dark side with a light, comic touch through a vampire named Spike.

source: IGN.com
published: June 5, 2000
author: n/a

James Marsters and I are talkin’ X-Files. Though James is best known for playing ultra-cool vamp Spike on The WB’s cult phenom Buffy the Vampire Slayer, at the moment, we sound like your average pair of overexcited fan-geeks. “I hear it’s gonna go another season, man!” he whoops. “And Scully’s apparently pregnant?!” I confirm this sordid plot twist. “With [Mulder]‘s child!” he bellows. I caution that we don’t really know the X-baby’s paternity just yet. “Awww, they love each other!” James starts laughing, assuming the tone of a seasoned ‘Phile who’s been watching since the beginning. “You can tell!”

source: Alloy.com
published: August 14, 2000
author: n/a
credit: www.jamesmarsters-justmagic.com

MODERATOR: Get ready to chat with Spike! Any second…

James: Thanks everybody for waiting around and thanks for coming back. Sorry for dumping out on everybody the other week.

hulahula: Who taught you how to do that brilliant accent for Buffy?

source: LA Life Weekend
published: February 25, 2000
author: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith
credit: James Marsters.com – The unofficial website

James Marsters — “Spike” to “Buffy the Vampire the Slayer” fans, is “reading a lot of scripts” for projects to do over the series spring hiatus. He hasn’t booked anything yet, however. “Mostly, the scripts I’ve been reading are junk, so boring they make scripts for ‘Buffy’ look so good,” he says. Marsters, whose character is a very sarcastic vampire, has a very sarcastic answer when quizzed about the dangers of being typecast:

source: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
published: November 3, 2000
Guests on this program were:

• Aisha Tyler
• David Crosby
• James Marsters
• Jonah Goldberg

Panel Discussion

Bill: He is one of the fine stars of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” — that’s a good show — Tuesdays at 8:00 on another network, I think I know which one, Fox. James Marsters, right over here.

source: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
published: June 6, 2000
Guests on this program were:

• Mary Louise Kurey
• James Marsters
• Tray Dee
• Nicole Sullivan

Panel Discussion

Bill: One of the fine stars of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Tuesdays at 8:00, also on another network. James Marsters, ladies and gentlemen.

source: Teen Hollywood.com
published: December 14, 2000
author: Dave Mason

Tara has fallen in love with Willow and cast some very cool spells. Now she’s ready for some Buffylike turns and kicks.

“I’d love to kill some vampires,” actress Amber Benson said between laughs at a WB press party.

source: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
published: March 9, 2000
Guests on this program were:

• Penn Jillette
• James Marsters
• Rosemary Altea
• Mac Davis
• Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Bill: Let us bring out our panel. She is the very popular spiritual medium and the author of “You Own the Power” – Rosemary Altea. Rosemary!

source: V Guide Ultimate Cable
published: April 29-May 5, 2000
author: Annabel Vered
credit: James Marsters.com – The unofficial website

James Marsters is seated on the sun-dappled patio of a health-food restaurant in Los Angeles–not exactly the kind of place you’d expect Spike, the blood-sucking demon he plays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to hang out. “My girlfriend introduced me to this place,” says Marsters, who has been dating actress Liz Stauber (“Three Kings”) for the past three years. “She’s a vegan.”

source: Contact Kids
published: October 2000
author: n/a

Actor James Marsters plays Spike, the super-evil vampire with the biting wit on TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Marsters told CONTACT KIDS about life in the fright lane.

CONTACT KIDS: Is it hard to react to computer-generated monsters that aren’t really there?

source: Zap2It.com
published: August 18, 2000
author: Kate O’Hare

LOS ANGELES – If you’re planning to be in Los Angeles this before Aug. 28, you can catch James Marsters – who plays bleached-blond vampire Spike on the WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”- in “The Why,”a new play, inspired by the Columbine tragedy, written by 19-year-old playwright Victor Kaufold.

source: Sci-Fi TV
published: February 2000
author: Ian Spelling

It sounds like the plot of an old B-picture: Handsome young man heads to the Windy City to give this acting thing a real try. Almost immediately, young man finds himself onstage at the renowned Goodman Theatre, in nothing less than Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”