ING INTERVIEW: CHARISMA CARPENTER
by Eric Goldman

I look back and I reminisce and go, "Oh, that's so sweet," and I wish I could have not been so fast paced in it, you know? In the sense that you're just chugging away and you're rolling them out and I just look back and I go, "At least I get to enjoy it now." It's a little bit more enjoyable. It's just sweet. I don't know what to say. It was just so sweet and endearing to see that little snippet. And then my Tivo, because it's sensitive, starts to scramble and I'm like, "Ugh, f**k this!" I erase it and move on to the next thing. [Laughs] "Oh, Angelina Jolie, True Hollywood Story! Let's watch 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… Those scenes…

If anybody gets the Angel DVDs, then you get the bonus [footage] where we're all interviewed. Then I saw the episode "You're Welcome" and I listened to the commentary. And it kind of bummed me out that the people that are on it with David Fury are Christian Kane and Sarah Thompson. They're talking with David Fury through that and I was kind of bummed. I wish they would have had David [Boreanaz] and I talking about it with David Fury or Joss, because it was a really big send off and it kind of just didn't feel like that was the episode they would put [Christian and Sarah on], because it was so about Angel and Cordelia.

But I loved what David Fury said about it. I'm paraphrasing of course, but David was often kind of marveling at the fact that Joss would watch something that he'd written being performed and he would get really emotional; Like he'd tear up, and he [David Fury] had never had that experience. And he said that when he was shooting those scenes with David [Boreanaz] and I, that it was very difficult for anybody to not be touched, in video village as they call it, watching the monitors while we're shooting it. And then he was talking about what he observed on set between the two of us, which I thought was pretty accurate. And it was very cool…

IGN TV: Well thank you so much Charisma.
Carpenter: You're welcome so much. Great talking to you. Thank you for taking me down memory lane! And I hope everybody enjoys Relative Chaos, because it's very light and bright. Definitely not as dark as Angel. Not as heavy, not as emotionally trying. It's a good alternative if you don't want to go there!

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