The Darla star has been chatting about her work, new and old.

Promoting her new TV movie, The Long Shot, Julie Benz has been talking to the Pop Gurls website.

As well as chatting about working with horses for her new project, Benz also answered questions about her roles in Buffy and cult shows Taken and Roswell.

Talking about Joss Whedon's way of working, she revealed that she only learned Darla had become human well after the start of Angel's second season.

"Because the stories were shrouded in such secrecy, we, as actors, never knew what was happening. When they brought me back to life at the end of Season One, [for] the first couple episodes of Season Two, I was still assuming that Darla was a vampire. And then, four episodes into it, they're like, "No, she's human. We decided to make her human. You're human."

Benz also talked about working in vampire make-up, explaining, "when I first started playing Darla, I had never played the villain before. I was scared, I was apprehensive. I didn't know if I could do it. And then when they did the test make-up on me for Darla, and I looked in the mirror, I smiled, [and said], "That's it. That's her."

You can read the whole interview, including why you won't get Julie Benz to dance on a car, by clicking the link below.