http://tv.ign.com/articles/729/729698p3.html
She is very complimentary of Sarah
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Sometimes when you get a lead actor, like Sarah [Michelle Gellar] on Buffy, [she] was just so acutely intelligent.
Other intereting tidbits:
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IGN TV: ...they're showing the pilots to Dawson and Felicity, and Buffy and Angel.
Carpenter: Oh wow! So David Boreanaz and myself are in the pilots for Buffy and Angel… I saw him today at the gym. That's so funny.
IGN TV: Oh, do you see him much at the gym?
Carpenter: I don't see him much at the gym, but we'll bump into each other at the Grove or we'll see each other periodically and I'll call Jamie, his wife, and we'll compare notes for our kids and stuff. Not often - I don't mean to make it sound like we're best buds - but we're very civil and love each other.
IGN TV: Looking back on your time as Cordelia, are there any particular storylines or episodes that stand out as your favorite?
Carpenter: It's funny, because I have Angel TiVoed, and I love to look at the early ones. Like the first and second seasons or my favorite seasons. I love watching the Doyle episodes, and I love the one where we kiss goodbye and I get the power ["Hero"]. I think that's a great episode. I love every scene I've ever done with him. And I think the goodbye episode, "You're Welcome", for the 100th episode... I loved doing that episode so much, because it was so poignant. It was such a… It was really where art and life were sort of intertwined and it was very meaningful and very spiritual and very healing to be back on that set and to have that.
IGN TV: I loved the 100th episode and it was great having you back. Do you think that was good closure for the character? Were you happy with the send off she got?
Carpenter: Bittersweet-happy. I was really sad that she died, and I didn't want to come back for the 100th episode if she was going to die. And I kind of got a little hoodwinked into that. Because then, after I agreed to do it, they were like, "Yeah, we're gonna kill her." And I started to cry. I was like, "No! I specifically did not want to come back for her to be killed!" I didn't know what they were going to do or what they had in mind and then I was really resentful. I was like, "What?!" Not resentful, not angry, as much as hurt and sad, like, "No!" I don't know, it's such a big part of my life and it was just so awful to think about her dying. And it was shocking and I was sad and I grieved, and then I'm like, "I'm not doing this!"
And then David Fury told me what Joss's idea was. And he said, "But wait! Just hear this…" And I go, "Wow… That does sound really good. That does sound like a pretty cool, sentimental…" I mean it's just so beautifully written. "Well… I guess I could die. If you're gonna put it that way!" It was really, really sweet. It was hard to do those scenes. That scene in the office right before the phone rings and he picks it up and then he realizes she's not there…
Carpenter: Oh wow! So David Boreanaz and myself are in the pilots for Buffy and Angel… I saw him today at the gym. That's so funny.
IGN TV: Oh, do you see him much at the gym?
Carpenter: I don't see him much at the gym, but we'll bump into each other at the Grove or we'll see each other periodically and I'll call Jamie, his wife, and we'll compare notes for our kids and stuff. Not often - I don't mean to make it sound like we're best buds - but we're very civil and love each other.
IGN TV: Looking back on your time as Cordelia, are there any particular storylines or episodes that stand out as your favorite?
Carpenter: It's funny, because I have Angel TiVoed, and I love to look at the early ones. Like the first and second seasons or my favorite seasons. I love watching the Doyle episodes, and I love the one where we kiss goodbye and I get the power ["Hero"]. I think that's a great episode. I love every scene I've ever done with him. And I think the goodbye episode, "You're Welcome", for the 100th episode... I loved doing that episode so much, because it was so poignant. It was such a… It was really where art and life were sort of intertwined and it was very meaningful and very spiritual and very healing to be back on that set and to have that.
IGN TV: I loved the 100th episode and it was great having you back. Do you think that was good closure for the character? Were you happy with the send off she got?
Carpenter: Bittersweet-happy. I was really sad that she died, and I didn't want to come back for the 100th episode if she was going to die. And I kind of got a little hoodwinked into that. Because then, after I agreed to do it, they were like, "Yeah, we're gonna kill her." And I started to cry. I was like, "No! I specifically did not want to come back for her to be killed!" I didn't know what they were going to do or what they had in mind and then I was really resentful. I was like, "What?!" Not resentful, not angry, as much as hurt and sad, like, "No!" I don't know, it's such a big part of my life and it was just so awful to think about her dying. And it was shocking and I was sad and I grieved, and then I'm like, "I'm not doing this!"
And then David Fury told me what Joss's idea was. And he said, "But wait! Just hear this…" And I go, "Wow… That does sound really good. That does sound like a pretty cool, sentimental…" I mean it's just so beautifully written. "Well… I guess I could die. If you're gonna put it that way!" It was really, really sweet. It was hard to do those scenes. That scene in the office right before the phone rings and he picks it up and then he realizes she's not there…
Sarah is definitely one of the most intelligent actresses in the Hollywood biz.