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 n the second weekend of November, members of the CoA Staff along with several Citizens joined a few hundred other fellow-Buffy/Angel fans to converge on the little village of Longford outside of London for the three-day Starfury Bad Girls Convention, held at the very nice Heathrow Thistle Hotel. The Special Guests for the weekend were none other than the Bad Girls themselves, Julie Benz (Darla), Clare Kramer (Glory), Mercedes McNab (Harmony), and Elizabeth Ann Allen (Amy). Along with the assistance and gracious consideration of Sean Harry, Starfury coordinator of the event, and Titan Magazine, we are able to bring you a Special 2-Part Feature to cover this event to its fullest. In Part One, we focused on Friday evening and the opening Ceremony, up until Saturday morning and incorporating two of the actress's question and answer panels featuring Julie and Clare. In Part Two, we now follow up with Saturday night's events to Sunday morning and the question and answer panels of Mercedes and Elizabeth and finish off with the Closing Ceremony. So, let the party continue!.
As luck would have it, you have been mercifully spared the sight of any of us dressed up as ghosts or ghoulies because we were trying to wake up Julie who was falling asleep at the table during dinner. This was due to having 2 hours sleep Friday night and spending the day trying to keep up with the motorised Kristy. However she did wake up later when the music started and Nic appeared wearing her 'Property of Angel's Dance Academy' T-shirt (which went down a storm!) So she was soon raring to get on the dance floor. Two bottles of coke and some serious foot tapping later, and she was awake and away. Kristy meanwhile, was much amused - and possibly a bit worried - about the dancing. However common sense and dignity soon abandoned her, and she joined in. A nice surprise was meeting up with Cardelia, who unsurprisingly, seemed very worried about the strange behaviour of the CoA staff, or more correctly; their dancing. Q&A Highlights with Mercedes and Elizabeth Mercedes McNab The first thing you notice about Mercedes is that she is really beautiful, and the screen does not do her justice! She is also a little nervous as it is her first Convention, but this just adds to her charm! Like some of the other female actors she did originally audition for the part of Buffy. She of course got the part of Harmony which she originally thought would be a one time gig, both Joss and the audience were obviously taken with her character as here she is 5 years on, and still going strong!
She describes working on Buffy as being part of a family and when asked whether she minds about the character of Harmony being brainless she says, "No she is so well written that at first, as an actor I read the script and Cordelia was more the really bitchy character and Harmony was written the same way, so I wanted to make Harmony more ditsy so that they were two different characters, one was really bitchy and the other kind of dumb and the follower!" After saying this though she also was pleased to read that her character was to turn into a vampire, if not a little surprised!, "Every script I would get I would read the last page first to find out if I was dead or not," and she recalls the moment she saw the end of the Graduation Day script and said, "Oh thank God I am not dead, I have been turned into a vampire!" thus reducing the audience to hysterical laughter.
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