I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.
Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting. I learned so much with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. They encouraged us to make creative choices with our characters.
I loved playing Darla.
I had the prosthetics on, and I went to my trailer, I looked in the mirror, and I smiled. And I was, like, "This is the character - everything she does is with a smile and a bit of glee and joy. " And that's how I created Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer]. Prior to that, I was, like, "I have no idea how to play this 400-year-old vampire from hell!".
I remember they did all the makeup tests on me for Darla. . . Sorry, for "the vampire. " I was the test monkey for the vampire look, so I went through numerous variations of the prosthetics and camera tests before I actually got the job.