source: ToyFare Magazine
published: February 2004
author: Tom Root
credit & transcripted by: Stephen Salchli
Spike don’t play. But James Marsters does play the long-lived and infamous vampire Spike on Angel (and on the late and lamented Buffy) and he took a minute to tell ToyFare how he feels about action figures and playing with himself.
source: Dreamwatch magazine, Issue 117
published: July 2004
author: n/a
After playing Spike for seven years, James Marsters will bid a fond farewell to his beloved bloodsucking alter ego during the closing hours of Angel…
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: The Deseret News
published: February 18, 2004
author: Scott D. Pierce (Deseret News television editor)
Turns out Joss Whedon was wrong. Just last month, “Angel’s” co- creator and executive producer expressed confidence that the show would return for a sixth season.
source: TV ZONE
published: June 2, 2004
author: Steven Eramo
transcribed by: Deb (thank you)
Fans of BtVS and AtS know him as Spike, the blond, good looking British bloodsucker with plenty of attitude. However, years before James Marsters got his vampire fangs, he played a very different type of role, “My very first time in front of the camera was as a bellhop in an episode of Northern Exposure,” he recall. “I had five lines, all of which were monosyllabic, like ‘Uh, yeah,’ and I think I also had an ‘Uh-oh’ to master. Thank God it wasn’t anything more than that because I was nervous as hell.
source: TNT – Angel, Weekdays 5pm
published: april 2004
author: David Martindale
transcripted by: Deb (thank you)
A funny thing happened to James Marsters on his way to television stardom. The actor, who’s well known to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel viewers as Spike, trekked to Los Angeles in the ’90s with one goal in mind. “I came to make good money,” he admits. “The idea was to make a quarter of a million and get out.” Financial gain was the only reward he believed he’d reap…
date: 2004
place: London, England
transcripted by: Bendy / Lilycat (thank you)
We just watched the movie Chance, and my question is what was it like to wear women’s clothes and the lipstick?
[joking] Surprisingly liberating… yeah. But I was upset. Because um… I don’t think you should make fun of actors…when they’re in a public situation, and I thought that since I was doing them a favour, that wearing the dress the whole crew would be respectful. I was like hiding in the bedroom in my dress [makes whiny crying noise]. [Talks about nudity on Buffy, how for movies you can decide if you think it's worth it or not, while on Buffy not only it was thrown on him, but he was also the only one in the nude.]
date: February 2004
place: London, England
transcripted by: Bendy / Lilycat (thank you)
JM: Hi, Hello. We only have two microphones so we’ll have to… [passes mic around, guys say hi]. So uh, Lisa, you wanna…? Eveybody, this is Lisa [crowd cheer and shout] Lisa!. [Sean says they should say thank you] Oh, yeah! We probably, we should have done that last night, you wanna? These guys have run this, they have organized a fabulous tour, we have been through highs and lows and we got through it, and I think we all did well. And we want to give our sincere thanks to you guys [crowd cheer].
date: May 2004
place: Berlin, Germany
transcripted by: Bendy / Lilycat (thank you)
What band would you like to open for you on tour?
Charlie: Weezer
JM: The Rolling Stones would be good on tour [bullying] ‘Get out there, do your job’. [obscured by crowd applauding]
??: If The Scorpions came back, are they still around?
source: contactmusic.com
published: April 1, 2004
author: n/a
note: Interview with James Marsters and Michelle Trachtenberg.
How are you doing today? Six seasons on one series, and you two are an integral part of it now.
Trachtenberg: Ready? On three, Yay. Yay!
Marsters: They were going to kill us off, but they didn’t, ‘cause we rock.
source: Groups.yahoo.com/group/bloody_awful – BAPS
date: June 7, 2004
place: Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony, PA, USA
transcripted by: Alane and Laurie
As we said before, we both agreed this was the best JM Q&A we remember. His answers to practically everything were fresh. You could tell he was very happy and energized by the news about Macbeth, and he was very playful with the audience. He was wearing a denim jacket that he took off before it even began,…
source: Newsok.com
published: April 2004
author: Kate O’Hare
The WB decides to end ‘Angel’ series: An interview with James Marsters.
Although he felt that “Angel” could go on “to season six and beyond,” James Marsters will likely depart the show at the end of this season as one happy actor.
source: Dreamwatch, Issue 114
published: April 2004
author: Abbie Bernstein
transcribed by: Lori Del Rossi
After becoming one of Buffy’s best-loved characters, Spike is now calling the shoots on “Angel.” Actor James Marsters bares his soul to Abbie Bernstein about the bad boy vamp’s new lease of life…
For six years, Spike was the ultimate Buffy bad boy. He was a leather-clad vamp whose razor-sharp put-downs and couldn’t-care-less demeanour set him apart from the show’s more well-meaning characters. But, by the time he was “toasted and ghosted” in the show’s apocalyptic finale, CHOSEN, it seemed as if the bleached-blond bloodsucker had been through just about everything.
source: TVguide.com
published: january 6, 2004
author: Daniel R. Coleridge
After Buffy the Vampire Slayer bit the dust, creator Joss Whedon hired James Marsters to join Buffy’s spin-off, Angel. How does he like playing Spike, the semi-reformed British bloodsucker, on a whole other series?
source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine, Issue 12
date: April 2004
author: Abbie Bernstein
transcribed by: Bloody Spike
Love him or loathe him, Spike has been an integral part of the Buffyverse since his first appearance way back in season two – and since leaving Sunnydale in a blaze of glory (literally), he’s moved on to helping out the Angel Investigations team. Buffy Magazine decided it was time to catch up for a good chat with his multi-talented alter-ego, James Marsters, to find out all about life after Sunnydale, his work in theatre and life as a rock ‘n’ roll star….
source: scifi.com
published: February 02, 2004
author: Patrick Lee
The WB’s vampire series Angel will celebrate its 100th episode, “You’re Welcome,” on Feb. 4, marking the return of onetime series regular Charisma Carpenter, and affording cast and crew a chance to reflect on the show’s five-year journey through the underbelly of supernatural Los Angeles.
source: An Audience With James Marsters
date: May 9, 2004
place: Crowne Plaza, Berlin, Germany
transcripted by: Bendy / Lilycat (thank you)
How does he feel personally about wearing the Nazi Uniform as Spike. Are you uncomfortable doing certain things, and if you are, where would you draw the line?
Good question, wow. Yeah, okay it’s a weird thing, when I saw the script and I read it? I laughed out loud. That Spike would be in a Nazi uniform but he’d just happened to have eaten one [Spike voice] ‘I’m not a Nazi, I just ate one’. But then when I got into film and they put the thing on me, it was weird. The first two days I would have to have, I would take it off and put it away when I got off the set. One time I forgot and I was standing in the lunch line, [pulls face, audience sort of sympathizes] Yeah. But then by the middle I got used to it, and I’d catch myself in the mirror and for one second I thought ‘hey I look good’ [audience sympathizes again]. But as far as things that make me uncomfortable,
source: Starburst, issue 309
date: April 2004 (On sale from March 30, 2004)
author: Margie Barrono
Angel finishes its final season on the WB leaving everyone wanting more of the platinum-haired bad boy Spike. Margie Barrono meets James Marsters as he says goodbye to all that…..
The fifth and final season of Angel on the WB is coming to a close. The loss of the Buffy spin-off will be lamented most by fans who were delighted to see James Marsters join the cast as Spike, a role that rose from the dead Vampire Slayer show.
source: 2004 Buffy Down Under Convention
date: Saturday, July 3, 2004
place: Melbourne, Australia
transcripted by: talkenglish2me – morethanspike.com
NOTE: Comments marked within [ ] are about the audience, by the audience or transcriber notes. Comments within ( ) are to describe James’s actions, expressions, etc.
JM: … Flash away. I don’t care what they told you. You can flash me to death. I don’t care. [cheers, laughs from audience] What I do best is just answer your questions, so if anybody has anything to ask, just come up and ask it.
source: 2004 Buffy Down Under Convention
date: sunday, July 3, 2004
place: Melbourne, Australia
transcript by: talkenglish2me – morethanspike.com
NOTE: Comments marked within [ ] are about the audience, by the audience or transcriber notes. Comments within ( ) are to describe James’s actions, expressions, etc.
JM: Is everybody awake? Everyone get enough sleep last night? [Audience answers back, "No!"] (laughingly)
NO! And now do you have Red Bull like I do?
