James Marsters Press Archive

source: PHASE9 – Movie Interview by Celebrity Extra
published: 2003 (2004)???
author: n/a
Question & Answer Text Copyright Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Acting careers are all about ups and downs. Can you tell us what positives you can take from the cancellation of ANGEL?

JAMES MARSTERS: Oh, my God. Well, first of all, the chaos is really potential if you’re willing to look at it that way. Change is good if you’re willing…

source: PHASE9 – Movie Interview by Celebrity Extra
published: 2003
author: n/a
Question & Answer Text Copyright Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

David and James it is great to see you both. How are you doing?
David Boreanaz: Good
James Marsters: So Good
So Good

source: Bliss magazine
published: January 2003
author: n/a

Sexy Spike gets a grillin’! Can the babe-licious Buffy star, James Marsters, fight off all your stake-sharp questions? Let’s see how tough he really is…

Who’s sexier – Sarah Michelle Gellar or Alyson Hannigan?
“It’s like different flavors of ice-cream, everyone has their favourite and I really like blondes! I’ve actually had dreams about Sarah – sorry Freddie!”

source: Cult Times special, issue 27
published: October 2003 (on sale from September 4)
author: Nikki Baughan
transcripted by: Deb (thank you)

When Spike roared into town in Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s second season he immediately showed his destructive tendencies in the most candid fashion by destroying the welcome to Sunnydale sign. In that moment the intentions of the slick Brit vampire…

source: Chicago Sun Times
published: May 7, 2003
author: Misha Davenport

Long before he dyed his brown hair blond and sank his teeth into the role of Spike, the Brit bloodsucker with a soul on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” James Marsters was grooming his bad-boy image. First, as a reject from the famed acting school at Juilliard, then as a Chicago-based actor who wasn’t afraid to bare all–much to the delight of many a blue-haired Goodman subscriber.

source: LA times.com
published: May 15, 2003
author: Carolyn Patricia Scott

He’s added the “Spike” to that cult TV favorite “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which fades to black after seven seasons with Tuesday’s finale. And now Marsters is back to doing some of what he likes best – touring with his band, Ghost of the Robot.

source: Zap2it.com
published: October 20, 2003
author: n/a

Spike may be fading in and out of Wolfram & Hart on “Angel,” but he’s front and center in the minds of Zap2it readers.

source: Venice Magazine
published: October 2003
author: Steve Baltin

For those not familiar with the phenomenon that was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” it’s hard to explain what’s going on outside the El Rey Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard this evening. By four o clock in the afternoon, there’s a row of fans, mostly girls, lined up on the street, some with lawn chairs, books, et cetera, indicating they’ve been here for some time.

source: Teen Hollywood.com
published: June 7, 2003
author:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer star James Marsters will miss playing vampire SPIKE in the finished hit series – but he won’t miss the love scenes.

source: SciFi wire
published: December 18, 2003
author: n/a

James Marsters, who plays Spike in The WB’s Angel, dismissed to SCI FI Wire any perceptions that his vampire-with-a-soul character is taking over the show from David Boreanaz’s other vampire-with-a-soul. The tension between Spike and Angel “was in there from the very first, from [the] ‘School Hard’ [episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,…

source: icLiverpool
published: Jun 17, 2003
author: Lew Baxter (Daily Post)

IN THOSE far-off day when The Beatles and the the battalions of Merseybeat bands were slaying the fans with their revolutionary music down in the dank, dark bowels of the Cavern the vampires could have rampaged at will, so to speak.

No one amongst the often shrieking, hysterical audiences that mobbed the legendary dungeon would have spotted a spare fang or two.

source: icLiverpool
published: March 2003
author: Chris Brown (Daily Post)

JAMES Marsters is a man of surprises, who would have thought that the British vampire, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, had a secret side line.

He is also a young frontman for a Californian rock band.

source: N-zone.com
published: September 2003
author: Henry Hanks

It was a wild weekend for Buffy/Angel fans of all ages at Dragon*Con Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA. The Buffy track was one of the most popular, thanks in large part to guest James Marsters, who regularly brought in incredibly long lines for his panels and autograph signings. Along with him were guests Andy Hallett, Danny Strong, Iyari Limon and James Leary…

source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine, issue 48
published: July 2003
author: Abbie Bernstein
credit: jamesmarsters-justmagic.com

It’s been a busy year for Spike. He got his soul back and got rid of that pesky chip – but will he get back with Buffy? James Marsters talks to Abbie Bernstein.

If you enjoy the character of Spike, the vampire anti-hero on Buffy, you’ve got company. James Marsters, who’s been playing Spike for six years now, is very fond of him, too. “He’s a Cadillac role,” James enthuses.

source: N-Zone Magazine
published: April 25, 2003
place: Cleveland Vulkon Convention
author: Tara DiLullo

How does clothing or the lack of them affect how you act as a vampire?

Clothing make a big difference. Shoes tend to make the biggest difference. Generally, I had one costume for Buffy. Black jeans, black shirts, black boots and sometimes the black coat. There was a whole lot of money that didn’t get spent on Spike. [Laughs] By the end of it, I was thinking I should go over to “Gilligan’s Island” because it had about come to that but they tried to give me some new clothes recently and it didn’t really work out. There’s something about Spike that needs a kind of a dirty authenticity that’s hard for television to really get so I’m glad we kept the black coat.

source: SFX magazine, issue 108
published: September 2003
author: Jayne Dearsley
credit: jamesmarsters-justmagic.com

You’d be surprised at the surreal things that can happen on the day you’re scheduled to interview James Marsters. You arrive a ridiculous two hours early because you are worried about missing your train. You can be glared at by a strange, scary woman as you kill time on a bench in Kensington Gardens, making you wonder if she is placing a voodoo curse on your head. You can sit in the lobby of a swish hotel where the interview will take place, watching a pool of water forming on the marble floor as a flood in room 125 drips slowly through the ceiling. Posh guests can saunter to and fro, oblivious to the liquid soiling their expensive shoes. A smiling PR guy can usher you into the bar, but not before you’ve received a mighty electric shock as you shake his hand.

source: Modesto Bee
published: May 23, 2003
author: Marijke Rowland (Bee entertainment writer)

Being dead really has worked out well for James Marsters.

The Modesto native and Davis High graduate has spent the past six seasons playing the vampire Spike on the cult TV hit “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” As the series battles its way to its final episode Tuesday, the actor reflects on its ending and the new beginning that awaits.

source: Modesto Bee
published: January 2003
author: Marijke Rowland (Bee entertainment writer)

The Modesto native, whose day job is starring on the hit TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” did a little moonlighting as lead singer for his band, Ghost of the Robot, on Saturday night at Sacramento’s Crest Theatre.

source: Dreamwatch, issue 107
published: August 20, 2003
author: n/a

Undead Spike is now really dead, having bought the big one on Buffy finale Chosen, but James Marsters is back in action on the new season of ANGEL.

“I thought it’s be interesting, if he had a real psychological reason to want to reform, to watch they guy choose to be good and how frustrating that could be. I never thought Buffy should reciprocate.”

source: SFX magazine, issue 103
published: April 2003
author: Kenneth Hubbard
credit: jamesmarsters-justmagic.com

Spike’s a very naughty boy, but he’s trying to be nice now. Kenneth Hubbard talks to James Marsters and finds out what he makes of the New Age William the Bloody…

Over Christmas, SFX managed to nab quite a few column inches in the national dailies thanks to our “Top 100 Characters In SF And Fantasy” poll. there were two newsworthy angles. Some concentrated on the fact that a 30 year-old TV character topped the poll, but perhaps that wasn’t quite as shocking as another result (Doctor Who fans are, after all, always good at motivating themselves into action on such occasions). Y’see, what a lot of the other papers picked up on was that second place went to a certain blond bombshell from Buffy The Vampire Slayer…