Tell us how you tackled impersonating Angel in Guise Will Be Guise. What was in that blood you were drinking?
I should find out, I haven’t been feeling well ever since.
That was a really fun show for my character because it was such a contradiction to have Wesley attempting the persona of Angel and having all the doors open magically for him. The world operates around Angel but to have that for Wesley was a very new experience for him.
I really enjoyed that show, they came up with great things like drinking the blood and the rules of a vampire. Having to adapt to that made for some enjoyable comedy, remembering about not being able to walk into a room and all sorts of things like that, and, of course, a punch doesn’t hurt Angel but it stings a little when it’s Wesley. It was a really fun show and a very funny idea, one that the writer - Jane Espenson - had been wanting to do for ages.
As far as I was concerned it was fun to do and it was good for the character. He came out of himself a bit and discovered some confidence that he really needed at that time, so it was a chance for him to grow through that episode.
The character’s been changing ever since the beginning, but there are times that you can look back on and see where there are intense evolutions in the character. That’s one of them.
