Angel

How do the Buffy and Angel fans react when meeting you?

This one Buffy fan in a wheelchair started crying hysterically when she saw me. She tried to stand up and I felt like I was healing someone on one of those “praise the Lord” shows. The thing Angel fans ask most about is what it’s like to kiss James Marsters’s character Spike.

In our Girls of Buffy issue, one of your co-stars said there was behind-the-scenes talk of making a Spike dildo.

Oh my God, I never heard that. My first sex scene was with him. All I had were Band-Aid-sized pasties and a really thin, sheer G-string. The crew normally doesn’t hang out for those scenes, but everyone seemed to be needed right behind the camera. I just found out that James is 41. I had no idea. I was like 17 when we started fooling around on the show. Jailbait!

Your bitchy character on Buffy has been called Little Brain and simply Blond Girl. How blond are you really?

Sometimes I ask really stupid questions and say things before I think. I saw on one Web site that Harmony was voted the second most annoying character on both of the shows. Interest gets the better of you on the Internet. You want to see what people are saying and if any nude pictures are floating around. There shouldn’t be any though.

Were you a wild child growing up?

When I was 18, my friend and I came up with this elaborate scheme to get fake IDs. They don’t fingerprint in Arizona, so we got our friend’s paperwork, bought a plane ticket from L.A. to Arizona, went to the DMV, became 28-year-olds and flew back to party that night. And once for a New Year’s party, I wore a completely see-through dress-but it was at the Playboy Mansion. I had to do it so I can tell my grandkids that their grandma was pretty cool because she swam naked at the Playboy Mansion. Excuse me, swam . . . in her underwear at the Playboy Mansion.

What is Mercedes McNab’s porn name?

Alicia Hollows. It’s funny, my real name sounds like a stripper name, too, but that’s what I was given at birth. I always asked my mom why, and she would say, “Oh, it’s because I really liked it.” But I’m convinced it’s because they had a Mercedes when I was born and that I was conceived in it.