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Source: Daily Mail
Buffy The Vampire Slayer co-stars Charisma Carpenter and Julie Benz looked age-defying as they reunited 23 years after the show wrapped.
The actresses took to the stage to talk about the show at Comic Con Scotland on Tuesday.
Charisma, 56, who played Cordelia Chase, a high school classmate of Sarah Michelle Gellar's title character, cut a stylish figure in a grey blazer, purple polo neck and jeans.
Julie, 54, meanwhile, played the vampire Darla on the show. The actress wore leather trousers and a black velvet blazer as she took to the stage.
The duo hosted a joint Q&A panel where they shared behind-the-scenes secrets from the show.
Running for seven seasons between 1997 and 2003, the original show, set in the fictional Californian town of Sunnydale, followed teenager Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who attended school by day and hunted evil spirits by night.
A reboot was announced in February 2025 and was due to star Ryan Kiera Armstrong as the new slayer, with Sarah reviving Buffy as a recurring character.
Yet in March it was announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, was no longer going forward – with Sarah and the reboot's director Chloe Zhao said to be 'blindsided' by the cancellation.
Charisma reprised the role on the spin-off Angel from 1999 to 2004 – and four months after her last episode aired, she covered Playboy in the nude.
Julie and Charisma reunited back in 2019 at the Oregon Convention Center during Wizard World Portland.
The group included Amber Benson (Tara), Julie, Iyari Limon (Kennedy), Amy Acker (Fred), James Leary (Clem), James Marsters (Spike), Clare Kramer (Glory), Alexis Denisof (Wesley), Charisma, Alyson Hannigan (Willow) and Nicholas Brendon (Xander) but some fans were furious that lead actress Sarah Michelle Gellar wasn't at the event.
While Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired its final episode back in 2003, it wasn't until 18 years later in 2021 that allegations of 'cruelty' emerged against its creator, Joss Whedon.
The allegations came about when Charisma claimed on X/Twitter that Joss 'abused his power on a number of occasions' and that his behaviour intensified her 'performance anxiety' and worked to 'disempower me and alienate me from my peers'.
She said his creating a 'toxic' and 'hostile' work environment 'triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer'.
According to the actress, Joss made 'ongoing, passive-aggressive threats' to fire her, and after she became pregnant, called her 'fat' to colleagues – later asking in a private meeting whether she was 'going to keep it'.
The claim triggered an outpouring of similar allegations from other cast members, with Michelle Trachtenberg, telling of an on-set 'rule' by which Joss was not allowed to be alone in a room with her.
Amber Benson, who played Tara Maclay, added to Charisma's claim, saying there was a 'toxic environment'.
She said: 'There was a lot of damage done during that time and many of us are still processing it twenty plus years later.'
Amber told Digital Spy that during filming for the finale of season five, Joss had pulled her aside to tell her: 'Hey! Guess what? It's so exciting! We're going to kill your character!'
Backing her castmates, Buffy star Sarah also issued a statement via Instagram. She wrote: 'While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don't want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon.'
Rumours also resurfaced that Joss had had romantic affairs with cast members, which were said to have contributed to his divorce in 2016.
Addressing the allegations made against him by Buffy cast members, Joss acknowledged that he had not been as 'civilised' back then.
'I was young,' he said. 'I yelled, and sometimes you had to yell. This was a very young cast, and it was easy for everything to turn into a cocktail party.'
He added in an interview he would never intentionally humiliate anyone.
'If I am upsetting somebody, it will be a problem for me. I know I would get angry, but I was never physical with people.'
He vehemently denied Charisma's claim that he had called her 'fat' while she was pregnant.
He insisted that he had no idea what Trachtenberg was referring to regarding the 'rule' about the two not being allowed in the same room together.
In the same interview, he said he felt 'f*****g terrible' about other claims made about affairs with female cast members. The director insisted he felt he 'had' to sleep with them and felt 'powerless' to resist.
As early as 2017, four years before cast members spoke out about Joss, the director's ex-wife, Kai Cole, accused him of pretending to be a 'feminist' to disguise his deception.
The director has not worked professionally in the industry since 2021, and many from Buffy's extensive fanbase have claimed the allegations have sullied the glittering reputation of the hit show.
Source: Daily Mail
By CONNIE RUSK
Buffy The Vampire Slayer co-stars Charisma Carpenter and Julie Benz looked age-defying as they reunited 23 years after the show wrapped.
The actresses took to the stage to talk about the show at Comic Con Scotland on Tuesday.
Charisma, 56, who played Cordelia Chase, a high school classmate of Sarah Michelle Gellar's title character, cut a stylish figure in a grey blazer, purple polo neck and jeans.
Julie, 54, meanwhile, played the vampire Darla on the show. The actress wore leather trousers and a black velvet blazer as she took to the stage.
The duo hosted a joint Q&A panel where they shared behind-the-scenes secrets from the show.
Running for seven seasons between 1997 and 2003, the original show, set in the fictional Californian town of Sunnydale, followed teenager Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who attended school by day and hunted evil spirits by night.
A reboot was announced in February 2025 and was due to star Ryan Kiera Armstrong as the new slayer, with Sarah reviving Buffy as a recurring character.
Yet in March it was announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, was no longer going forward – with Sarah and the reboot's director Chloe Zhao said to be 'blindsided' by the cancellation.
Charisma reprised the role on the spin-off Angel from 1999 to 2004 – and four months after her last episode aired, she covered Playboy in the nude.
Julie and Charisma reunited back in 2019 at the Oregon Convention Center during Wizard World Portland.
The group included Amber Benson (Tara), Julie, Iyari Limon (Kennedy), Amy Acker (Fred), James Leary (Clem), James Marsters (Spike), Clare Kramer (Glory), Alexis Denisof (Wesley), Charisma, Alyson Hannigan (Willow) and Nicholas Brendon (Xander) but some fans were furious that lead actress Sarah Michelle Gellar wasn't at the event.
While Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired its final episode back in 2003, it wasn't until 18 years later in 2021 that allegations of 'cruelty' emerged against its creator, Joss Whedon.
The allegations came about when Charisma claimed on X/Twitter that Joss 'abused his power on a number of occasions' and that his behaviour intensified her 'performance anxiety' and worked to 'disempower me and alienate me from my peers'.
She said his creating a 'toxic' and 'hostile' work environment 'triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer'.
According to the actress, Joss made 'ongoing, passive-aggressive threats' to fire her, and after she became pregnant, called her 'fat' to colleagues – later asking in a private meeting whether she was 'going to keep it'.
The claim triggered an outpouring of similar allegations from other cast members, with Michelle Trachtenberg, telling of an on-set 'rule' by which Joss was not allowed to be alone in a room with her.
Amber Benson, who played Tara Maclay, added to Charisma's claim, saying there was a 'toxic environment'.
She said: 'There was a lot of damage done during that time and many of us are still processing it twenty plus years later.'
Amber told Digital Spy that during filming for the finale of season five, Joss had pulled her aside to tell her: 'Hey! Guess what? It's so exciting! We're going to kill your character!'
Backing her castmates, Buffy star Sarah also issued a statement via Instagram. She wrote: 'While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don't want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon.'
Rumours also resurfaced that Joss had had romantic affairs with cast members, which were said to have contributed to his divorce in 2016.
Addressing the allegations made against him by Buffy cast members, Joss acknowledged that he had not been as 'civilised' back then.
'I was young,' he said. 'I yelled, and sometimes you had to yell. This was a very young cast, and it was easy for everything to turn into a cocktail party.'
He added in an interview he would never intentionally humiliate anyone.
'If I am upsetting somebody, it will be a problem for me. I know I would get angry, but I was never physical with people.'
He vehemently denied Charisma's claim that he had called her 'fat' while she was pregnant.
He insisted that he had no idea what Trachtenberg was referring to regarding the 'rule' about the two not being allowed in the same room together.
In the same interview, he said he felt 'f*****g terrible' about other claims made about affairs with female cast members. The director insisted he felt he 'had' to sleep with them and felt 'powerless' to resist.
As early as 2017, four years before cast members spoke out about Joss, the director's ex-wife, Kai Cole, accused him of pretending to be a 'feminist' to disguise his deception.
The director has not worked professionally in the industry since 2021, and many from Buffy's extensive fanbase have claimed the allegations have sullied the glittering reputation of the hit show.