Yeah ... your post has thrown me for a loop, Laura. Is he saying the stuff that we say on his face as he played Spike was a lie? Because it was HIS ACTING and INTERPRETATION that made me believe in Spike's remptitive journey, not the writing. In fact, the writing contradicted what we were being told from their acting!

I don't buy Buffy/Angel because I was TOLD they were in love. I believe in Buffy/Spike because I SAW it on their faces.

So as Kly says, The amazing thing is that he managed to play the Spike he did while having absolutely no conception of who the character actually was. I mean, that's astonishing.

This is all very upsetting.