Tell us about how you joined the Buffy cast.

My introduction to Buffy was getting material that I was going to be auditioning with. If I remember correctly, the character was actually called Cherie at first, and there was no character description, no hint as to how this person was going to tie into the script or the storyline or anything at all.

I got the two pages and thought "Well why not?" I'd heard good things about the show, so just went in, auditioned, did what I felt was interesting and worked with the material a little bit and got a call later that day. "Okay, they want you to come back in and read for some more people", so I went in along with Charlie Webber who ended up being cast as Ben.

They went, "Okay, can you wait in the lobby," and then he went in, and they said, "All right, can you wait". They were talking and we looked at each other and thought, "Huh, what's going on here?" and next thing you know Joss came out and said, "Okay, you guys have the part."