1 / 4 century after it debuted, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode The Body remains to be one in all the collection’ most resonant. After 5 seasons of combating the undead, collection lead Buffy has to confront mortality in an all-too-real method, when she finds her mom Joyce immediately and devastatingly lifeless. To this present day, the second stays one in all the present’s most surprising, and based on Joyce Summers herself, there is a fairly clear motive why.
Nobody in the forged however her knew it was coming.
After all, after we say Joyce Summers we’re truly speaking about actor Kristine Sutherland, who performed Buffy’s mother in seasons 1-5 of the present after which once more in flashbacks in seasons 6 and seven. Talking lately to Us Weekly, Sutherland recounted heading in to manufacturing for the notorious season 5, episode 16 story, and the secret she had too maintain from her coworkers.
“Joss [Whedon, series creator] requested me to inform nobody,” Sutherland stated, “So I informed nobody […] Figuring out that I was going to die however not precisely when, it made the entire remainder of [my time filming] so bittersweet.”
And by the time the forged had discovered what story they have been about to inform, the entire factor appears much more bitter than candy.
“It felt like someone had died,” stated Sutherland of filming the episode, “There was this actual heaviness […] tears have been working down my face.”
Us too, Kristine, though we had the luxurious of not figuring out it was coming. Or does that make it even worse? In any case, we definitely do not envy that day on set.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is streaming on Hulu now. A continuation of the story, New Sunnydale, is predicted in late 2026.