James Marsters Press Archive

date: May 19-20, 2001
place: Sydney, Australia
transcripted by: Bendy/Lilycat (thank you)

Hello hello… thank you Sydney. Damn there’s a lot of you here [takes off coat] take your pictures, I’m such a queen for a day, thank you… I think what they want to do is have the pictures first and then questions later, but we can do both at once if you want to… it’s very exciting- I feel like I should be saying we’re at war now or something, something important…

source: Zap2it.com
published: November 26, 2001
author: Kate O’Hare

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – Kevin Sorbo, the star of the sophomore syndicated SF series “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda,” is 6’3 tall, but not everybody else is. That was the problem facing James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), when he headed up to Vancouver, Canada, last May to film a guest appearance.

source: TV Zone, issue 144
published: November 2001 (on sale from October 15, 2001)
author: Ian Spelling
credit: James Marsters.com

He might be defanged, but he still has some bite. James Marsters tells us why Spike wants to jump The Slayer’s bones…

Acting out the final grief-driven moments of The Gift – Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘s Season Five cliffhanger, in which Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) sacrificed herself to spare her sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) and quite possibly the whole planet from a date with death proved far less challenging than James Marsters ever expected. “It was easy,” notes the actor, who’s spent the last four seasons sinking his teeth into the role of the vampire Spike…

source: Big Hit, issue 26
published: May 2001
author: Carolyn Stewart
credit: James Marsters.com

Big Hit: Hello James, how are you?

James Marsters: (The voice down the phone line comes back with an American accent – being from California, he doesn’t actually sound like Spike at all) Hello Carolyn. I’m doing very well. Let me turn down [legendary jazz saxophonist] Charlie Parker, OK? (he runs to the other side of his house and turns down the CD) Good Afternoon or evening or middle-of-the-night or whatever…

source: UK Buffy magazine, issue 22
published: June 2001
author: Matt Springer

For some Buffy and Angel stars, the performing doesn’t end when the cameras stop rolling, as Matt Springer discovers

Imagine that the next time Giles pops into the Espresso Pump for a solo acoustic set, Spike shows up with his own axe for a mean, mellow duet of the Sex Pistol’s “God Save the Queen.” Or when Lindsey McDonald is stressing over the pressures of life at Wolfram & Hart, he hits the stage to blow off steam with some dirty country rock.

source: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
published: October 15, 2001
Guests on this program were:

• James Marsters
• Deborah Perry
• Tavis Smiley
• Khaled Saffuri

Panel Discussion

Bill: Welcome aboard to “Politically Incorrect” once again. Let me introduce the panel to you. To my right here, the president of the Islamic Institute. We’ve been trying to get you here for a while. Thank you for coming, Sir – Khaled Saffuri.

source: Teen Hollywood.com
published: February 5, 2001
author: Dave Mason

Spike can go in one of two directions, according to the star who plays the vampire.

“Out of his love for Buffy, he could be driven to embrace good. He is a fool for love. If his love is great enough for Buffy, that would be interesting,” James Marsters said at a recent press party for The WB.

source: City of Angel.com
place: London, Great Britain
date: June 11, 2001
author: Linda Clinker & Julie Reynolds

Monday June 11th 2001 saw the start of what was to become “Buffy & Angel Week” here in Sunny London. Not only did we have Amber Benson [Tara] signing Buffy Season 5 VHS box sets at Forbidden Planet on the Monday, AND the Four Star Mary [Dingoes Ate My Baby] gig at The Garage in Islington on the Thursday, BUT we also had the “Nocturnal 3K”…

source: City of Angel.com
place: Lidcombe (near Sydney), Australia
date: May 19-20, 2001
author: CoS

As you step off the train and into the small town of Lidcombe (near Sydney) the very first thing you notice are the FSF (Friends of Science Fiction) signs directing you on your way: James Marsters ‘Spike’ Convention. You know that you are in the right place when you spy a que of fans quietly forming outside the convention’s venue. Locals passing by…

source: Teen Hollywood.com
published: September 17, 2001
author: Ian Spelling

James Marsters nearly went batty.

The actor, who plays the vampire Spike on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” had just read the script for the fifth-season finale, “The Gift.” In it, series creator Joss Whedon killed off the show’s main character, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who sacrificed herself to save her sister (Michelle Trachtenberg) and the world as we know it.

source: Starburst magazine, no. 278
published: October 2001 (on sale from September 10)
Autor: n/a

So James, as we all know, the show’s changed networks this year after 5 years on the WB. Is there anything that’s different now it’s moved to UPN? A bigger budget, perhaps?
Yeah. More Snickers bars on set.

source: just-b.co.uk
place: Birmingham, UK
date: June 18, 2001
author: n/a

On Monday 18th June I traveled up to Birmingham for the ‘Evening with James Masters’ event organised by a group called The Wolves of Fenric. I had never been to an event like this before, so it was very much a new experience for me. The doors for the event were due to open at 7pm, and though I arrived at 6:15 in the hope of beating the rush I found myself…

source: Cinescape
published: September 2001
author: Frank Kurtz
credit: Ian Spelling Inside Trek & Sci Fi

He was once meant to be a here-today, staked-tomorrow villain. But four years on, Spike is Buffy’s latest squeeze, and a mark of the show’s maturity, as much-loved star James Marsters explains… Buffy the Vampire Slayer isn’t the show it was. As the sixth season goes on, it’s increasingly clear that it’s grown up. Buffy’s no longer a carefree teenager in the throes of first love, and that change is reflected by her distinctly physical connection with the neutered vampire Spike – as the man behind his bleach-blond crop explains… Why does Buffy The Vampire Slayer work so well?

source: zap2it.com
published: February 08, 2001
author: Kate O’Hare

It’s a cold, rainy afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., in a cluster of boxlike buildings down the road from a hazardous-waste facility, home to the production offices and sets for the WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

source: TheWB.com
published: 2001

For a blood-sucking vamp, Spike certainly has it going on in the style department, and James Marsters’ fashion sense is pretty much the same.

His portrayer, James Marsters, admits Spike’s fashion sense and his own are fairly identical – with one basic exception: “I don’t kill people for my clothes,” he jokes. “I have to buy them.”

source: TV Scene
published: April 2001
author: Sheryn George
credit: www.jamesmarsters-justmagic.com

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is all grown up, but she’s still falling for bad guys who stay up past midnight. SHERYN GEORGE meets James Marsters, who plays her latest love.

Alone with a vampire. And not just any vampire. Alone with the best-looking bloodsucker this side of the hell-mouth. Only tonight in Sunnydale, scary, sexy, Spike is polite, flu-ridden James Marsters. So, no chance of some neck action. Bummer.

source: Cult Times, issue 66
published: February 2001
author: n/a

…In his Dreams! Still, whatever way you look at it, Spike’s unfortunate condition has left him gunning for Buffy’s camp. We caught up with James Marsters to find out more…

Some might say that Buffy the Vampire Slayer wouldn’t be the same without Spike. Following his arrival on the scene, near the start of Buffy’s first full year on air, the series really hit its stride. And while Giles has been polishing his glasses and Xander was bickering with Anya, …

source: IGN Sci-Fi
published: March 14, 2001
author: Sarah Kuhn

It’s a Big Bad blow-out, and the gang’s all here.

Well. Well, well, well. I’m trying to write this review…but I keep glazing over. My head is swimming with dream-like images of my beautiful Spike. Spike as a big ol’ nerd, pining and penning godawful love poetry. Spike as Billy Idol, kickin’ down on the mean movin’ subway. Spike in the present, demanding spicy buffalo wings. Spike, Spike, Spike. Mmmm.

source: The WB.com
published: January, 2001
author: n/a

He’s got a passion for Passions and a crush on The Slayer, but somehow he still manages to hold up his bad boy image. James Marsters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer tells The WB what it’s like to be the baddest incapacitated vampire around.

The WB: Did you have any clue when starting out that you’d make it big on Buffy?
James: Nope. When I got the part, Spike was supposed to die after three to five episodes. In fact, I think the original plan had me down as Angel’s first victim. They told me, ‘Look, we’re going to bring you on for three to five episodes.’ Then we hit number six and just kept going.

source: YM Magazine
published: November 2001
author: Martine Bury

James Marsters’ bad-boy ways kill us on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Offscreen, he’s just as devilish.

HIS CLOSEST CASTMATE – Sarah Michelle Gellar. “It’s ironic, because when we were first shooting together, she said ‘I don’t take friends home from work, if you know what I mean.’ I was like, ‘Totally cool. I don’t either.’ Then we became friends.”