I never read them either. The writers' interviews are interesting, though I avoid them until the end of the year (or the series) - interesting to see what they thought they were doing. But the actors only get one little piece of the show - their own - to study thoroughly, and their talent is not writing. If they have a talent for interpretation it's a bonus.
I was thinking, though, that perhaps a lot of this is because he was thinking "in character". One thing that was perfectly obvious throughout S7 was that Spike didn't think that much of himself. He began by thinking of himself as a "bad, bad man" and ended by believing, even though the look on her face ought to have told him otherwise, that Buffy didn't mean it when she said she loved him - because, deep down, he believes he doesn't deserve love.
And if JM is Method (is he? I think I read something somewhere to that effect), he really feels that Spike he's playing is bad and unloved. That doesn't mean that the writers think the same thing - it doesn't even mean that Buffy thinks the same thing. It means that JM plays a Spike who believes that. Different question.
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Date: 2003-06-09 02:25 pm (UTC)I was thinking, though, that perhaps a lot of this is because he was thinking "in character". One thing that was perfectly obvious throughout S7 was that Spike didn't think that much of himself. He began by thinking of himself as a "bad, bad man" and ended by believing, even though the look on her face ought to have told him otherwise, that Buffy didn't mean it when she said she loved him - because, deep down, he believes he doesn't deserve love.
And if JM is Method (is he? I think I read something somewhere to that effect), he really feels that Spike he's playing is bad and unloved. That doesn't mean that the writers think the same thing - it doesn't even mean that Buffy thinks the same thing. It means that JM plays a Spike who believes that. Different question.