> référence : "Regis and Kathie Lee" du 26 mai 1999 (USA)

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Regis: Hard to believe that this beautiful, little young thing could conquer demons all over the world.

Sarah: I was just nervous about conquering these chairs. [there's a bit here but I lost sound, so I don't know what she said!] See, I always wear pants because I can't do it if I'm in a skirt.

Regis: You think you've got a problem? Wait till you see Dr. Ruth try to get on one of those. That's a sight to be seen. So anyway, you have conquered now. Tell me about the demons. Are they a form of the devil or... Who are these demons?

Sarah: I think they were all my Jr. High school teachers.

Kathie Lee: So it's payback time.

Sarah: It's payback time. Well, actually the wonderful thing about the show is we're using these monsters as sort of a metaphor for high school life because when you think about it in actuality, there's really nothing scarier than high school.

Kathie Lee: Oh, really? Just wait. No, it's a terrifying time.

Sarah: Yeah.

Regis: Especially now. As a matter of fact, I think I read just the other day that one of the Buffy episodes had to be canceled because it was too close to a real life tragedy.
Buffy: We had an episode, where Buffy hears voices and there's a threat of school violence. And we felt that due to the tragedy in Columbine, it was the wrong time to air it. Although I do, I really, really, strongly believe that we need to air it because it happens to be a really important message with a wonderful--an episode with a wonderful message. And I think that because this tragedy exists, instead of turning our head, we need to confront it, we need to put it out there, that it's wrong, that there are consequences. So, I'm a really big supporter that A. the show needs to air, and that it's just a form of entertainment and the lessons are learned in the end.

Regis: You know, you have an enormous teenage audience, young people audience. Do you think your show really has an impact on them?

Sarah: That's a good question. I would certainly hope so. I know that when I was growing up, there weren't wonderful role models like Buffy and you with a daughter, you want them to have girls that are strong, that are independent, that are smart.

Kathie Lee: And compassionate. I would like to see more compassion in the entertainment world.

Sarah: And when I grew up, all you had were these girls that were valley girls. They were either a nerd, because they were the smartest girl in the class, or they were a valley girl, they were dumb.

Kathie Lee: Or a tramp. Gotta have a tramp.

Sarah: Or a tramp. Facts of Life, the epitome show. So I think it's wonderful that they have a character, like Buffy who can really take care of herself. So I hope that Buffy and Willow are role models for that reason.

Regis: I hope so too. But you know, you've been in this business sixteen years, somebody said.

Sarah: Just about sixteen.

Kathie Lee: And you look about sixteen.

Sarah: Thank you!

Regis: And if you look real closely, you soap opera fans, you probably remember seeing her on Days of Our Lives.

Kathie Lee: Won an Emmy playing Erica Kane's daughter.

Sarah: (mouths quietly) All My Children.

Regis: No, no, no, All My Children. All My Children.

Kathie Lee: You won an Emmy playing Erica Kane's daughter.

Sarah: Yes, I did, I did. My second year on the show.

Regis: And then what happened to her daughter.

Sarah: She went back to the trailer park that she came from and got remarried. And, I graduated from high school.

Kathie Lee: Good, we're so glad things worked out.

Regis: When did you get the call to go to Hollywood? I guess you were working in New York.

Sarah: I was working in New York, and I really, I just got finished with high school. I just finished the show and it was sort of that you need to make a decision. Do I want to go to college and do something else, or is this something I really want to try. So, I moved to LA, and it was about six or seven months when I got the pilot for Buffy.

Regis: Moved by yourself.

Sarah: I did at first. Although actually, I originally got the role of Cordelia. So, originally, I had very long, dark brown hair from being on the show. And they said, "Well we really like her but she's really not Buffy. Do you want to come in and test for Cordelia." And I really loved the show, I just felt something for it so I went in and tested for Cordelia and I got it. They kept searching and searching, and it was really getting close to air time and they hadn't found a "Buffy." I kept saying, I know I can do it, let me try it. So I started the audition process from scratch and went in for the casting directors and the producers and auditioned about 210 more times.

Regis: Wow.

Kathie Lee: Did you change your hair even at that point?

Sarah: I wasn't ready to that yet especially since I had the part of Cordelia. But slowly I would change my dress and the way I did my hair.

Kathie Lee: Oh, so you earned this one.

Regis: Yeah, she earned it.

Sarah: I went after it.

Kathie Lee: I didn't realize that. That's a great story.

Sarah: It's a good story because it just reminds you that if you really want something and you go after it, there will be rewards.

Regis: Exactly right. And, how many years has it been on now?

Sarah: We're going into, I guess would be our fourth season. But the first season, we only did half a year. We were a mid-season replacement.

Regis: So, no regrets about not going off to college?

Sarah: I think there's always regrets, but I'm a person who loves to learn and I always spend time. We were just in London and Paris, my first trip to London and went all the museums. I think you can still continue to learn on a daily basis if you want to.

Regis: You're absolutely right.

Kathie Lee: You can be a student with out going to a building where you--

Sarah: Exactly. And I think for me, the college life, it would have been very awkward. I was already so much more adult that I probably would have felt uncomfortable at frat parties and the sorority thing really wasn't for me.

Regis: So, the schedule, as I understand it, is very demanding, isn't it.

Kathie Lee: How long are your days?

Regis: I mean with all the special effects and everything takes time.

Sarah: I clocked in, my longest day was a twenty-one and a half hour day, once. It's very difficult because normal one hour shows take seven to eight days to do. We have the same seven or eight days, but if on top of that, you add the time we spend for the computer graphics as well as the stunt sequences. A five minute stunt sequence which is, give or take, what it is at the end of the show, will take at least two and a half days to shoot. They're very long days.

Kathie Lee: Well, do you enjoy it though?

Sarah: I love it. I can honestly say that I am so proud to be on this show, and proud to produce the show that we're producing. It's a just a thrill to go to work every day. And I think that's the greatest gift to get up every day and say "I love my job."

Regis: We feel the same way over here. We are thrilled to be here. Well, you know it's exhausting.

Kathie Lee: And then on your hiatus you do a movie.

Regis: That's right. Cruel Intentions.

Sarah: Yes. He's just trying to get this question in.

Regis: What I understand is that you were so tired one day, that you forgot to do something that you should normally do when you wake up in the morning before you go to work.

Sarah: Um. I was still working on the whole early morning thing. I'm much better at it now. I guess it was our very first season, we were working on the season finale, working just the longest hours we worked on. I had a convertible at the time and I was really late, I ran to work and I was wearing a nice dress, or so I thought because I had plans for that night. I'm driving to work, but people are like really looking at me. So I'm thinking, 'I must be looking really good today. So, I'm feeling really good about myself. And I look down and I realized I put the slip to my Betsy Johnson dress on, but hadn't actually put the dress over it. I left to go to work. So I'm like freaking out, I pull over to the side of the road, I put the top on the car, and I figure I'll just double park in front of my trailer for like two seconds, run in and I always keep clothing in there. Only the executive producer of the show is like standing like right outside my car. He's like, 'Oh, come, come, I have to talk to you.' And I'm like, "Oh can it wait like two minutes. Phone call, gotta make a phone call." "No, really." So I open the door and I stood up, and he just looked at me for a good long time.

Kathie Lee: Little on the shear side.

Regis: Somewhere, very weird.

Sarah: My bedroom.

Regis: And it's always great to have you in New York to do Saturday Night Live.

Sarah: Thanks.

Regis: They love you a lot over there. That was like your second...

Sarah: That was my second time.

Regis: Terrific. All right, so Buffy the Vampire Slayer continues, Tuesday nights on the WB at 8PM.

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