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Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

Friday 24 March 2006, by Webmaster

Perhaps it’s fitting that the so-called Seinfeld curse — the inability of any cast members from that hit TV show to find a niche after the end of the series — should be revisited on the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s one of those ironic twists that Buffy’s gang of teen heroes and their watcher would relish, in between saving the world from vampires and demons. David Boreanaz, who played Buffy’s brooding vampire boyfriend Angel, seemingly had the best chance for success, spinning his Buffy character into his own cult show, Angel, for five years. But Boreanaz’s recent projects, such as These Girls, reveal he’s having problems finding his place in the sun. Will any of them find a role with the same bite?

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Buffy character: The titular Slayer.

Post-Buffy highs: Middling remake of Japanese horror film The Grudge.

Post-Buffy lows: Two outings as Daphne in the Scooby-Doo films.

What’s next: Horror films The Return, The Grudge II; The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing.

David Boreanaz

Buffy character: Angel.

Post-Buffy highs: Spinoff series

Angel, TV show Bones.

Post-Buffy lows: These Girls; a cameo in a Dido video.

What’s next: Alan Cumming’s Suffering Man’s Charity.

Alyson Hannigan

Buffy character: Wide-eyed witch Willow.

Post-Buffy highs: Wide-eyed flutist in the American Pie trilogy; the good sense to avoid starring in the straight-to-video Band Camp, the latest instalment of the increasingly unfunny American Pie franchise, named after Hannigan’s AP catchphrase.

Post-Buffy lows: Diabolically bad parody film Date Movie, struggling TV show How I Met Your Mother.

What’s next: Who knows?

Nicholas Brendon

Buffy character: Xander, charming goof-next-door-type.

Post-Buffy highs: Hmm, we can’t think of any.

Post-Buffy lows: Role on TV’s short-lived Kitchen Confidential .

What’s next: Small horror/thriller pictures Unholy and Alien Fire are in post-production.

Anthony Stewart Head

Buffy character: Giles, all-knowing mentor of Buffy and the gang.

Post-Buffy highs: Stint in British hit series Little Britain; no more Taster’s Choice coffee commercials.

Post-Buffy lows: Imagine Me & You.

What’s next: Not even IMDB can help tell us.— Staff


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  • > Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

    24 March 2006 14:16, by Ron

    Anthony Head will be in the new series of Dr Who, in England.

    I do wonder if a lot of the bad choices these great actors make is to do with their clueless agents. Do they only get passed on scripts to rubbish teen "comedies" and (what turn out to be) 4th rate horror films? Not to mention pushing them to get their kits off in FHM, etc, as if this is supposed to advance their clients’ careers.

    How criminally under-used was the magnificent Emma Caulfield in Darkness Falls?

    And when are we going to get to see Bandwagon? Maybe if things like that (which sound ACTUALLY funny, intersting and original) got distributed and seen, they would get offered better roles.

  • > Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

    24 March 2006 17:06, by Anonymous
    I don’t know who "Staff" is but let me tell you that they are wrong. Both David and Alyson have been renewed for second seasons for both of their shows. Sarah is mainf lots of movies. Maybe not all of them will be the best but she is working that means something good. James have been in Smallville doing a great job as Brainiac and Charisma has been in "Veronica Mars’. I don’t know about all of you but that is no curse to me. The only series that didn’t made it was Nicholas’ "Kitchen Confidential". Fox didn’t gave it the chance it deserved because I saw the episodes and I like it. If that is a curse please curse me. The "Seinfeld" cast is a totally different story. All the cast tried to make a show and all failed. That is a curse man!

  • > Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

    24 March 2006 17:52, by Vkmax

    How exactly is "How I Met Your Mother" struggling? It’s bringing in 10 - 12 million viewers a week and has already been picked up for another season. David is doing well and Sarah has NINE movies out this year!

    I love how they fail to mention Michelle Trachtenbergs leading roles in ’Ice Princess’ and ’Eurotrip’ or Charisma Carpenter landing recurring roles in ’Charmed’ ’Miss Match’ ’LAX’ and ’Veronica Mars’ aswell as several TV movies.

    Amy Ackers guesting roles on ’How I Met Your Mother’ ’Supernatural’ and a regular slot on ’Alias’ all in the same TV season. Eliza Dushku, Alexis Denisof, Mercedes McNab are the only ones who were around at the end that aren’t working - Emma quit acting.

    What about James? guest shots on ’Mountain’ and a recurring (offered but could refuse) regular status on Smallville during it’s higest rated season as well as several TV movies.

  • > Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

    24 March 2006 18:08, by Nebula

    I don’t honestly think that this article is worth reading, nor is it particularly true. For one thing, Alyson Hannigan’s "struggling" TV show, How I Met Your Mother, is now signed up for a second season. Not exactly what I’d call "struggling".

    While the author of this ’article’ may have found Nicholas Brendon’s show to be a low, I know a lot of people that actually DO enjoy it. Perhaps ’Staff’ would like to try and act in some of these, and see how long their show holds. It isn’t an easy thing to do, I’m sure.

    The article is also very badly named. Only Buffy was the Slayer; the others were the Scoobies. "Staff" seems very rude and against Buffy (and doesn’t appear to know all that much about it on top of it), and so I have to question as to WHY this was posted on a site for people that still love and adore the show?

    If you’re going to argue and speak out against something, make sure you have the research to back it up please.

  • > Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

    24 March 2006 20:41, by Oric
    This article is complete BS. Most of the Buffy cast are doing great.

  • Film : The Curse of Buffy ? Slayers no more

    14 April 2006 01:19, by Anonymous

    I’d say Sarah doing okay in the movies still leaving Buffy.

    Worldwide: sd  $275,650,703   Worldwide: sd 2  $181,466,833  Worldwide: grudge  $187,242,146 (2nd highest female lead opening ever, $39 Mil.)

    finished southlands, the return , happlily ner’after

    signed for alice and girls guide