Sarah has had the chance recently to play characters other than Buffy in the show. Was this a decision by the writers to give her more fun stuff to do?

I think the episodes where Sarah�s gotten to do something with a completely different colour than the normal Buffy - the one where she switched bodies with Faith and the Buffy Bot - I think those came much more out of story.

It was just like, "Wouldn�t it be interesting to see what Spike would do with this Bot, wouldn�t it be interesting to see what Faith would do with Buffy, what Buffy would do with Faith", to see how those personalities affect each other. I think the bonus [was that] it was an extra scoop of ice-cream that Sarah got to to do these extra things.

It was wonderful for us to get to see it, but I really think they came originally out of just the necessity of story.