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Jeff Pruitt (Buffy’s stunt coordinator) and his wife Sophia Crawford (Buffy’s stunt double) left the show at the end of season four. His last huge fight sequence was in Primeval. This was apparently due to ‘creative differences’ with the production team. Jeff later went online to Buffy forums to air his views on the show and it’s star. |
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April 27th, 2006 at 7:11 am
What exactly were his views, just out of curiosity?
May 14th, 2006 at 2:55 am
Apparently his leaving was also due to one of the stars of the show ordering it. But I don’t know who and I can’t even say if that’s true, it’s just something I read. Interesting if it was though.
May 14th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I don’t know what happened here, but the notion that he “later went online to Buffy forums to air his views on the show and it’s star”, just doesn’t sound like the classiest move ever.
May 14th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
I tried looking for info about this, but could only find a few things that other Buffy fans had posted.
Seemingly, and I don’t know if this is true, he told someone that the way a stunt was set up as wrong, but no-one changed it and his wife got hurt. But if he was the stunt co-ordinator, wouldn’t it have been his job to set the stunt up in the first place?
I also read somewhere that SMG was supposedly responsible for Charisma Carpenter being taken off Buffy and put on Angel, as SMG didn’t like all the press attention that CC was getting. But, again, don’t know how much truth is in that.
May 14th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
I have never heard of this, but I got to thinking about how Charisma Carpenter never came back to BTVS, and about how Sarah Michelle Geller came back twice, and both times Charisma Carpenter barely appeared in the episode (and spent almost no time on screen with Sarah Michelle Geller). The second such time, in “Sanctuary”, she left for seemingly no appearent reason very early in the episode (which I have always assumed was because the episode just had to many people and too much going on, so someone had to be cut out, but after reading this…). Again, I have no idea whether or not this is accurate, so I can’t say too much about it (okay, so I have, but oh well).
May 18th, 2006 at 6:12 am I have never heard of this, but I got to thinking about how Charisma Carpenter never came back to BTVS, and about how Sarah Michelle Geller came back twice, and both times Charisma Carpenter barely appeared in the episode (and spent almost no time on screen with Sarah Michelle Geller). The second such time, in “Sanctuary”, she left for seemingly no appearent reason very early in the episode (which I have always assumed was because the episode just had to many people and too much going on, so someone had to be cut out, but after reading this…). Again, I have no idea whether or not this is accurate, so I can’t say too much about it (okay, so I have, but oh well).
I’m pretty sure in one of the commentaries — I want to say Ep 1 of ‘ANGEL’, but I could be wrong — David Greenwalt says that when he was offered the chance to be in charge of the spin-off, he was given a choice of also taking one other character. He immediately chose Charisma Carpenter. He said that he was really impressed with her acting abilities and would be able to explore her character more in ‘ANGEL’ than if she had remained on ‘BUFFY’.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:15 am
Sorry, I messed up on the quotes. My comment is the last paragraph above.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:28 am
On the commentary for Reptile Boy, David Greenwalt explains that he wanted the bright and cheery Cordelia as a foil to balance Angel’s gloomy nature.
May 18th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Thanks, tadpole. I knew in was in one of the many commentaries I listened to. :-D
May 18th, 2006 at 7:41 am
It — I meant “I knew it was in one of the many commentaries I listened to.” I blame my horrible computer skills today on finals. They’re frying my brain cells.