I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

I had the prosthetics on, and I went to my trailer, I looked in the mirror, and I smiled. And I was, like, "This is the character - everything she does is with a smile and a bit of glee and joy." And that's how I created Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer]. Prior to that, I was, like, "I have no idea how to play this 400-year-old vampire from hell!".

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

I'd been doing comedy up that point and hadn't really done a lot of drama, and then all of a sudden he casts me as a 400-year-old vampire from hell. It was, like, "What?!"

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

So it's nice to know that Rita had that impact, and it was nice to end a character on a high note like that. But, again, in the moment... I always say, nobody was more devastated than me [from Rita's death in Dexter]!

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!