Vintage Interview: Amber Benson
Aug 17
Time to reanimate the corpses of dusty interviews past in order to make way for interviews…of the future!
Well. That…didn’t sound so appealing, did it?
But, look, I promise it is appealing on many levels, because today I’m posting a circa 2000 chat with Ms. Amber Benson, a geek multi-hyphenate who seriously does it all. She makes movies. She writes books. She plays iconic characters on wildly popular nerd television series, spawning fankid passion, fanfic opuses, and rare variant action figures.
I’m posting this now because I recently conducted an all-new, all-awesome interview with Amber about her amazing new urban fantasy book Death’s Daughter, which is the first of a full-on series. That’ll be gracing Alert Nerd later this week.
But for now, let’s flash back to 2000, when Amber was just entering the collective nerd consciousness as shy, witchy Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And one fine day — before there was an Amber action figure, before Tara and Willow officially became Twillow — she talked to me about the whole Buffy shebang. Please note that I was 23 and apparently thought the enduring legacy of New Kids on the Block made for scintillating questions.
Read on, and check back later this week for the new interview, which contains lots of hyphens and little-to-no boy band content — I promise.
Stuff We Like This Week: August 14 Edition
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Stuff We Like This Week: August 7 Edition
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Jul 31
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Stuff We Like This Week: July 17 Edition
Jul 17
In an effort to combat our occasional…okay, okay, near-constant negativity, we give you a regular feature full of nothing but love — Stuff We Like This Week. Appearing every Friday, SWLTW will recap the things that have set our little nerdly hearts aflame within the past seven days.
