Angel

Joseph McCabe of The UK’s SFX Magazine visited the Angel set during filming of ‘Time Bomb’. Joseph had the chance to talk to Andy Hallett, Amy Acker and several members of the production team.

Andy talks about ’Time Bomb’ : "Angel assigns me to go undercover, like a private eye...I’m on Illyria’s tail. She’s wreaking havoc, and the gang here doesn’t really know how to take her. Of course, she’s in Fred’s shell, so it’s a weird thing because you look at her, and of course we’re seeing Fred. We realise that Illyria still thinks she’s God of the entire world, and she thinks we’re little peons. It’s quite a different character for Any Acker, I will say that."

Producer and ‘Time Bomb’ writer Ben Edlund adds that "This is where Illyria kind of takes her first hit in this world. The story’s about her and her powers. She’s got a human body and this tremendously powerful demonic essence inside it, and the body’s starting to crack apart because there’s so much power in there. Actually it gets to a Slaugherhouse-Five place - she starts living time out of sequence because her powers are time-related."

You can also expect a scene in ’Time Bomb’ which features Fell demons at W & H, demanding to know if the ’holy vessel’ [aka Illyria] is in Angel’s office, and if so, why. Harmony offers them some organic cola.

Meanwhile, Costume designer Shawna Trpcic reveals that "in this next episode [’The Girl in Question’], we go to 1989, we go to 1950, and then 1894. And its in Italy and America."

Amy Acker talks about the death of Fred and the birth of Illyria in Season Five, "It’s fun. It’s like 180 degrees different from Fred, so it’s been a nice change. I mean, before we knew we weren’t going to have another year, I was sort of excited to have something different to play for a while. And with Joss doing the episode where I died, it sort of seemed appropriate. It was a good ending for Fred...But now it’s been fun."

You can check out more comments and photos in the full nine page feature on Angel, in Issue #117 of SFX Magazine.