Where Are They Now?
HOT GALLERY: Looking Back at the Stars of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Movie
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so not Twilight. For fans of that supernatural series who have never seen the pop-culture-iconic, hilariously scripted, butt-kicking original teenage girl dealing with a town full of vamps, well, it’s about time you met your maker. This high school epic—and the TV show it later inspired—is ultimately “about growing up,” creator Joss Whedon told Entertainment Weekly. To put the character’s impact into perspective, Buffy ranks No. 3 on EW’s 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years (only Harry Potter and Homer Simpson outrank her; Tony Soprano is No. 4). So where is the original Buffy cast now? By Nina Hämmerling Smith
Donald Sutherland as Merrick in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Merrick (Donald Sutherland) was Buffy’s first Watcher, who comes to break the news to her that she’s a Slayer—and eventually dies at the hands of the vampire Lothos. On the set, Buffy creator Joss Whedon and Sutherland didn’t exactly see eye to eye; in fact, Whedon told The Onion’s A.V. Club that he eventually left the set of the movie because “I could not be around Donald Sutherland any longer.… He would rewrite all his dialogue, and the director would let him. He can’t write—he’s not a writer—so the dialogue would not make sense.”
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