No, no, because the rules were slightly vague about what you could and couldn�t do. I was constantly asking, �Can I do this or not?� What was patently clear was that I couldn�t touch any props, to everyone�s great joy, because I have a tendency to use props a lot. Part of the way I work is to try to bring some of the outside world in to the scene, rather than just play the scene off the page. You have a life and the scene happens to be part of that, and so, quite often, I�d involve something, so everyone thought it was very funny that I was stuck not being able to use props.

It proved a challenge because I had to make sense of it - why would Giles come in and not touch anybody, not hug anybody, not involve himself like the usual thing? I was basically playing stuff had become so important and so serious and so fast with the First, and I was suddenly saddled with the responsibility of bringing all these girls in and finding them all over the world without the Watcher�s Council. I internalised it all and was in my own little world of seriousness, trying to deal with everything, and had shut down and wasn�t allowing myself to be friendly.