Knowing that this actor was cast because she looks like an older Buffy completely changes the context of the woman’s remarks to Spike and his later relationship with the Slayer.
Spike basically kills his mother because he hates what she is saying, like “All you ever wanted was to be back inside” and “You wanted your hands on me.” The combination of his mother’s incestuous accusations and the revelation of her new vampire face was enough to make Spike drive a stake through her heart.
Watching the episode, it’s easy to think she is just saying hurtful things for the sake of saying them—after all, she admits that “I used to hate to be cruel in life; now, I find it rather freeing.”
But knowing that this actor got the job because she actually looked like Gellar seemingly lends weight to her accusations. In a plot point that would have made Sigmund Freud proud, Spike went from going “inside” his mother with his teeth to going inside someone who looks just like his mom in an entirely different way.
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