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It's Really Interesting - I Wanted To Become An Actress When I Was Young Because I Wanted To Do Romantic Comedy. And I Did A Lot Of Comedies Very Early On, But Then My Career Took Kind Of A Left Turn With Joss Whedon, And I Discovered That Doing Genre Work Is Actually More Interesting As An Actor, Because The Given Circumstances Are More Extreme. And It Really Is Creatively More Challenging.

I Remember They Did All The Makeup Tests On Me For Darla... Sorry, For "the Vampire." I Was The Test Monkey For The Vampire Look, So I Went Through Numerous Variations Of The Prosthetics And Camera Tests Before I Actually Got The Job.

Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] Wasn't Darla In The Beginning, By The Way. Darla Was Just Vampire Girl #1. But I Just Started Adding A Little Bit Of Glee And Joy Into Everything She Did And Just Relied On The Fact That The Prosthetic Does The Work. And Then I Didn't Have To Be Scary. The Prosthetic Was Scary Enough. I Just Had To Smile And Show Off Darla's Really Great Dental Work.

[dario Argento] Speaks Very Broken English - He's Italian, So I'm Going To Do A Very Bad Italian Impersonation - But He Asked Me My Name, And I Told Him, And He Goes, "walk Across The Room." He Looked At Me, And He Said, "do You Want To Be In My Movie [two Evil Eyes]?" I Was, Like, "yeah! Yeah, I Do!"he Goes, "okay! You Play Betty!" And I Was, Like, "oh, I'm Playing An Extra Named Betty! Great!" So We Walked Out, Thinking That I Was Playing An Extra Named Betty, No Lines, Just Background.

I Love Being Challenged Physically, As An Actress.