Joss dispels rumor about Charisma

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 20:50
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HAKEN

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:56 PM

This was posted over at SCIFI.COM:

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Putting to rest a persistent Web rumor, Angel co-creator Joss Whedon told SCI FI Wire that regular cast member Charisma Carpenter will indeed return for The WB series' fourth season in the fall. Carpenter's month-long absence in the middle of last season and her character Cordelia's ascendance into a higher plane of existence in the season finale fueled rumors that unspecified personal problems had resulted in her departure from the series.

Not so, Whedon said in an interview at the Saturn Awards ceremony in Los Angeles June 10. "I hadn't heard all the vicious stuff," he said. "I just heard people saying, 'Is she coming back?' I've heard every vicious rumor about everybody, and I lend them all very little credence. She is coming back. She's a part of the show. She's an essential part of the show. ... It's not as vicious a rumor as the rumor that I directed Boy Meets World, but it's up there."

PANDORA

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:11 PM

Thanks for the clarification, Haken- it's good to know that the folks over at ME haven't gone completely batty.

Pandora

SHAMUS

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:35 PM

Also some Firefly-specific Joss qutoes here:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-06/11/11.45.tv

HAKEN

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:44 PM

Also there was another article on SCIFI that said Elizabeth Rohm, who is currently on Law and Order, would like to return and do a few episodes of Angel. She previously played Detective Kate Lockley.

I had always felt, prior to Rohm leaving the series, that Lockley would end up being Angel's love interest. At one point or another, you could really feel a bit of romantic tension between the two. Too bad we didn't get a chance to find out.

MOJOECA

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:50 PM

I heard an interesting theory elsewhere that, had Rohm not left, Kate Lockley would be Holtz's recruit/love interest instead of Justine. I thought that would have been kinda cool.

--- Joe