As the megalomaniac, pansexual Time Agent Captain John Harper, James Marsters has been a welcome addition to Torchwood's much-improved second season. So far Captain John has been unsucessful in his attempts to bump off the team, despite having posioned Gwen, pushed Jack off the top of a building, and blown up a warehouse with them all inside. But with a truly devastating finale set for this Friday, will Captain John finally get his way? DS speaks to the cult legend Marsters to find out.
Moving on to Buffy, do you think the Spike movie will ever happen? Is it something you're still keen to do?
"I would love to. My face has held up a little better than I thought it would! One thing I told Joss [Whedon] is that I don't want to do the character when I'm so old that we have to explain that to the audience. I would like to film the character while he's still believably the same age. One of the coolest things about being a vampire is that you are immortal, so I think if we go back to Spike when I can't hold that illiusion, we're going to end it on less than a great note. I went to Joss and gave him an idea for a script that he liked a lot actually."
What's the gist of it?
"Spike tries for the girl, he loses the girl, a monster attacks, he tries to defeat the monster and can't. But he wins a new pair of shoes for himself, because he can't fight any more and his old boots have given up on him. It sounds kind of stupid, but actually when you play the story out it's kind of funny. Joss said 'That's a great idea, I love it, it's cheap' - and it seemed like everything was set to go, but then it evaporated."
Do you think the idea could be revisited?"
I am still interested in it. At this point I would like to do some camera tests to find out if it's possible to photograph me as Spike, but that's not hard to do. With the right lighting, who knows? Maybe I should start drinking carrot juice! The project is not really on the front burner with Joss now. It seems like he made a little attempt and then it just didn't happen. I don't wanna get bitter about it. I was kind of excited that it might happen and I've tried to make it happen.
Source and complete interview here.
