Amber Benson

Amber Benson (“Tara” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show) did a brief tour in the UK to promote her new DVD Love, Liars & Lunatics. Visiting a fair few Forbidden Planet International shops, one of which (luckily for us) is located in Leeds.

The signing was from 4:30 to 6pm on Wednesday 19th September and unfortunately it was one of those grey days where you just knew it was going to rain at the worst possible moment and of course, it did. The staff of FPI Leeds were kind enough to let everyone in to the shop whilst they waited. A few were there to get things signed for friends or family but the majority were there for the opportunity to meet Amber.

Pleasingly, Amber is one of the nicest people one could hope to meet; she asked everyone’s name and remembered it, gave out hugs, took pictures with those who asked and generally made everyone feel that for a few minutes even the English weather just didn’t matter.

Once the line of fans was gone it was time for a few questions with Amber, iPod at the ready (yes, they can record now), list of questions dug out of my bag and it was a go:

Sabrina Peyton: Just a few questions, I didn’t want to bore you to death.

Amber Benson: No, no.

Hit me with your best shot. Whatever you want.

SP: What has been your favorite role to date?

AB: Probably my most favorite role to date is Race You To The Bottom that was actually played at the London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and I actually made the rounds, it played Outfest, a lot of gay film festivals in the states, but I just really love that film and I’m really proud of it and the character was very multi-faceted. She was kind of a whinny bitchy beautiful person so it was really fun to do, I enjoyed her. Like I said she was probably my favorite as of right now.

SP: As of right now of course, depending on how far you go.

AB: Exactly.

SP: What was the hardest character to play?

AB: The hardest to play um, gosh I did a film called King of the Hill that Steven Soderbergh directed and I played an epileptic girl and that was very difficult because I had to have a seizure so I watched hours and hours of actual footage from epileptic clinics and people having seizures and you know it wasn’t very pretty, but it made it easier I could model what I was doing on what I saw.

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