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TRASCRIZIONE PROFILO DI FAITH DAI DVD DELLA 'BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER COLLECTION'
DOUGLAS PETRIE: Before we cast Eliza, Faith said:"we're gonna have a new slayer". Her name will be Faith and she'll start out rough and tumble and she will go psycho.
- WESLEY:<< Ah. This is perhaps Faith. >>
FAITH:<< New watcher? >>
BUFFY:<< Nwe watcher. >>
FAITH:<< Srew that. >>
BUFFY:<< Now, why didn't I just say that? >> -
JANE ESPENSON: Faith turned out to be an amazing character. None of us realised how important she would be.
- FAITH:<< So? What are friends for? I mean, I'm sorry. It's just...All this sweating nightly action, and you never put in for a little after-hours (grunt)? >>
BUFFY:<< Thanks for the poetry. And no. >> -
ELIZA DUSHKU: A lot of people connected with her cos she representets she working-class, slayer chick. Whereas Buffy's got designer clothes, lives in a nice house. That's not everyone in our country.
- FAITH:<< Nicely diverted, B! >>
BUFFY:<< Diverted? That was me fighting for my life. This isn't a tapper ware party. >> -
ELIZA DUSHKU: The girl had a story and there's a reason for why she's so messed up and psychotic.
MARTI NOXON: We talked about the fact that Faith was Buffy's shadow self. She was the same elements but had gone to a dark place. So, really fun to contrast the two. And that's what the episodes that featured the two of them together were really about.
- FAITH:<< Rise and shine, people. >>
BUFFY:<< This is your wake-up call. >> -
SEASON 3, EPISODE 14
"BAD GIRLS"
JOSS WHEDON: "Bad girls" and "Consequences" were our attempt to start exploring the idea of being a slayer in terms of the powre of it and how much fun it could be and how intoxicating, and how dangerous. We used Faith as a vassel because we didn't wanna send Buffy into too dark her anymore.
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DOUGLAS PETRIE: Yes, we knew that this was the first chink in her mental armour. And I was happy to turn that one just a little bit.
- FAITH:<< Tell me you don't get off on this. >>
BUFFY:<< It didn't suck. >> -
ELIZA DUSHKU: She's kind of not too clear on her duties. She has all these strange mantras.
- FAITH:<< When are you gonna get this, B? The life of a slayer's very simple. Want? Take. Have. >> -
ELIZA DUSHKU: You know, everything's cool, go with it, we're slayers, we can do what we want. And she tries to reel Buffy into that.
- BUFFY:<< Want. Take. Have. I'm gettin' it. >> -
DOUGLAS PETRIE: There's a little bit of blood lust in Buffy. There's a lot of blood lust in Faith. Faith opens the floodgates and goes to places were Buffy kind of firts with.
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Faith enjoys her job too much. And she doesn't see herself as responsable. What the actors and director bring to that is a very sexy subtext. When Faith talks about killing, she might be talking about sex.
- FAITH:<< You can't fool me. The look in your eyes after a kill? You just get hungry for more. >>
BUFFY:<< You're way off-base. >>
FAITH:<< Tell me that, if you don't get in a good slaying, you start itching for some vamp to show up so you can give him a good...(grunt) >>
BUFFY:<< Again with the grunting. >>
ELIZA DUSHKU: They end up going too far with it and a human being comes in and I kill him by accident. I think it initially freaks her out and she definitely feels guilty.
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I think she cares, but I think that she's so afraid of messing up.
- BUFFY:<< We need to talk about what we're gonna do. >>
FAITH:<< There's nothing to talk about. I was doing my job. >>
BUFFY:<< Being a slayer is not the same as being a killer. Faith, please don't shut me out here. Sooner or later, we're both gonna have to deal. >>
FAITH:<< Wrong. >>
BUFFY:<< We can help each other. >>
FAITH:<< I didn't need it. >> -
ELIZA DUSHKU: I think that last moment where she says "look, you killed a man", and I think she just doesn't...She's not gonna let on what her scenario is. She kinda cops out.
- FAITH:<< Ok. This is the last time we're gonna have this conversation. You understand me? There is no body. I took it, weighted it and jumped it. The body doesn't exist. >>
BUFFY:<< Getting rid of the evidence doesn't make the problem go away. >>
FAITH:<< It does for me. >>
BUFFY:<< Faith, you don't get it. You killed a man. >>
FAITH:<< No, you don't get it. I don't care. >>
ELIZA DUSHKU: I think she's lying to herself because she does care. But I think that she's all of a sudden in a situation with Buffy and all these people that she didn't plan on getting into.
SEASON 3, EPISODE 15
"CONSEQUENCES"
- FAITH:<< He came out of nowhere. >>
BUFFY:<< I know. >>
FAITH:<< Whatever. I'm not lookin' to hug and cry, learn and grow. I'm just saying it happened quick. >> -
JANE ESPENSON: Here's a slayer that makes the wrong choice. And through the course of the season you can actually see Buffy flirt with the idea of making those same choices. And decide not to.
- BUFFY:<< She need help now. I owe her that. >> -
MARTI NOXON: Faith had some pretty dicey dealings. The whole Xander/Faith attraction an the culmination of that.
- XANDER:<< I just came by to see how you are, actually. >>
FAITH:<< Sick of people asking me that, for one thing. >>
XANDER:<< Can I come in? Just to talk, I promise. >> -
MARTI NOXON: That was a story line where I thought "they're not gonna let us do this". It's such a creepy thing to have appen, you know, her strangling him. It was tough to write. I think it ultimately worked, but it was not one of our more light-hearted endeavours.
- ANGEL:<< You can't imagine the price for true evil. >>
FAITH:<< Yeah? I hope evil takes MasterCard. >> -
MARTI NOXON: It ended up being very much about the ideas of abuse of power, of nature versus nature, of the responsabilities of strength. Ideas as opposed to more relatable melodrama.
- FAITH:<< You sent your boy to kill me. >>
MAYOR:<< That's right. I did. >>
FAITH:<< He's dust. >>
MAYOR:<< I thought me might be. What with you standing here and all. >>
FAITH:<< I guess that means you have a job opening. >> -
SEASON 3, EPISODE 21
"GRADUATION DAY" (PART ONE)
JOSS WHEDON: "Graduation day", both parts, was designed to wrap up a number of things. And to serve as a catalyst for going to a totally new place.
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The fight between the two of them took a couple of days to shoot. We built Faith's apartment and built the exterior of the roof that they fall onto. It was very important to me that they go from one level to the next. That the fight not just be two people in a room, as we so often do.
- FAITH:<< Ready to cut loose? >>
BUFFY:<< Try me. >>
FAITH:<< Ok, then. Give us a kiss. >> -
MARTI NOXON: It was great because with the two slayers fighting you have a match for Buffy's power.
JOSS WHEDON: It was her double. It was her dark side. It was, you know...All the text and subtext between them was so charged. It was so much a part of her that I needed to be bigger than anything.
- BUFFY:<< All that killing and you're afraid to die? >> -
JOSS WHEDON: Eliza brought a lot of intensity to it and we made a monster of her. Which was interesting because she was our first human monster. She was the first one. You couldn't just kill with impunity.
- FAITH:<< That's mine. >>
BUFFY:<< Well, you're about to get in back. >>
FAITH:<< Man, I'm gonna miss this. >> -
JOSS WHEDON: Buffy stabbing Faith was a big deal. We didn't kill her because I didn't want to make Buffy a murdered an because I wasn't going to let go of Eliza that quickly.
- FAITH:<< You shoulda been there, B. Quite a ride. >> -
JOSS WHEDON: But to take her to the place where she thought she had and had intended to was a big deal for people too.
SEASON 4, EPISODE 16
"WHO ARE YOU?"
JOSS WHEDON: In the case of "who are you?", what I wanted to do was start making the turnaround in Faith's character start letting her see the other side. What I was really interested in was seeing the character of somebody who's hated and considers the world her enemy, getting the chance to completely destroy the life of somebody who's got everything she doesn't have and represents everything she doesn't believe, and having in affect her instead. And we did that specifically with the line that she says three times in the show, when she says "because it's wrong".
- FAITH:<< You can't do that! It's wrong. You can't do that because it's naughty. Because it's wrong. >> -
JOSS WHEDON: She's pretending to be Buffy in the mirror. And then she says in to Spike just to piss him off.
- FAITH:<< I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I've got muscles you've never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne and you beg me to hurt you just a little bit more. And you know why I don't? Because it's wrong. >> -
JOSS WHEDON: By the end of the show she says it with sincerity. She's become Buffy, she wants more than anything in the world to be Buffy. Which is impossible for her. And she realises thet she hates what she is more than anybody else.
- BUFFY:<< Riley. It's me! Never mind. How many are in there? >>
RILEY:<< Well...Who are you? >>
VAMPIRE:<< I have strenght you couldn't dream of. Adam has shown me the way and there is nothing... >> -
JOSS WHEDON: There where some mannerisms that they really did study, but mostly it was just about having been given that different role. It's like letting Eliza play the sincerity and the angst of a character and letting Sarah play the anarchy and the pissed-of superiorness of a character.
ELIZA DUSHKU: It was just such a fun character to develop with Joss and the writers and the actors.
- POLICEMAN:<< Now spread 'eni. >>
FAITH:<< You wish. >> -
JOSS WHEDON: Eliza, who started out just trying to find her bearings on the show, more and more began to take over every scene she was in. And the more evil she would bring to her scenes, the more vulnerability she would lay under it.
- FAITH:<< Don't you need anyone dead? Or maimed? I can settle for maimed. >>
MAYOR:<< You little firecracker! >>
FAITH:<< My mom used to call me that. When I was little. >> -
ELIZA DUSHKU: One of the things about Buffy, even tough it's so far-fetched, and there's demons and it's all the science-fiction stuff, Joss has a really good idea. I think it's a more realistic look at how teens are dealing with teen angst. And she's this girl who's got this...Basically, she's an outcast.
- ANGEL:<< I just wanna talk to you. >>
FAITH:<< That's what they all say. And then it's just let me stay the night. I won't try anything. >>
ANGEL:<< You wanna go the long away around? Hey, I can do that. I'm not gettin' any older. >> -
MARTI NOXON: They were great characters. And I think, in some way, took off in a sense that we didn't expect at the beginning. At the beginning it was just "she's gonna be this dark version on Buffy". And it ended up being a little more poignant, a little more rich than we anticipated.
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