Anthony’s house in England

Giles

The scenes between Willow and Giles in the episode Lessons were actually filmed on location at Anthony Stewart Head’s house in England. They were directed by Joss Whedon. The place is named as Westbury in the show, but he actually lives near Bath in Somerset. Westbury is in Wiltshire and is famous for a massive horse drawn into a hill with chalk. There were going to be more scenes in England, but bad weather interrupted the filming. Anthony Stewart Head told the BBC about filming in England:

“Basically, Joss had always wanted to shoot in Britain. He announced that he wanted to shoot some scenes with Willow in England, and I was very excited, because it’s my neck of the woods and it meant I could stay longer with my family before I went back to the States. Then he said he wanted to shoot in and around Bath, because that’s where we said we’d set it if we ever do the Ripper series. I’d pitched Bath as an interesting environment, a good backdrop because it’s a cool place. Somerset is just riddled with myths and legends and folklore - ley lines and all sorts of things … it’s very spiritual.
Joss said yes, so when it came to shoot Giles at home he said, “Can we do it at your house?” I thought I’d better ask my partner, Sarah, and she said, “Go on.” I said, “Yeah, but a film crew?”, and she said, “Get over it, it’ll be fine!” Actually the house loved it, it was very “smiley” … it loved having all the attention. It’s a lovely house.”
   
Source:› BBC Buffy
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    5 Comments about “Anthony’s house in England”

    1. hannah_wish01 says:
      December 31st, 2005 at 10:41 pm

      wow, the scenery in those scenes were gorgeous, imagine having that as your back garden, and what a view!

    2. MissKittyFantastico says:
      December 31st, 2005 at 10:44 pm

      *There were going to be more scenes in England, but bad weather interrupted the filming*

      … - see - England SUCKS!!!

    3. Abby M. says:
      January 26th, 2006 at 10:11 am

      I wish we could have seen more of Giles in England. Would have been cool. Maybe Ripper will happen…

    4. MagicBone says:
      January 27th, 2006 at 6:30 am

      List of things to do before I die, cont’d

      #127: See Anthony Stewart Head in England
      #128: See Anthony Stewart Head in the US
      #129: See Anthony Stewart Head in Thailand
      #130: Learn to kumbia dance
      #131: Be best friends with a whale

      wait that’s mine…

    5. Abby M. says:
      January 27th, 2006 at 9:05 am

      My b-day was Sunday and a friend made me a Giles birthday card. It had a picture of Giles with some roses on the cover (I think the picture may actually be a computerized one)…I was happy!

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