It’s no longer a secret, Charisma Carpenter hated acting on the show buffy the vampire slayer, then in the spin-off centered on Angel. What displeased him, above all, was being directed by Joss Whedon who would have made many extremely inappropriate comments about him. And the actress is not the only one to say it. Gal Gadot and Ray Fisher, who collaborated with him on the film Justice League in 2017, also assured that he had shown a “abusive behavior“and that he had threatened their careers. To which he found nothing else to say that English was”not mother tongue” of the heroine of the saga wonder woman and that she must have misunderstood.
It may well be at the origin of one of the greatest television masterpieces of the 1990s, Joss Whedon should soon be banned from the wonderful world of the seventh art and its derivatives. Charisma Carpenter, who had already recounted her disastrous experience with the director, added a layer of it on social networks to support Gal Gadot and Ray Fisher. In particular, she insisted that Joss Whedon was “a tyrannical, narcissistic person who is always unable to take responsibility and apologize.“
He accused me of wanting to sabotage the show, then unceremoniously fired me.
“I’m pretty sure that Gal Gadot is able to understand that her career is being threatened in English, but also in Hebrew or Arabic, continues Charisma Carpenter. Certainly, also, in French, Spanish and Italian.“As a reminder, the interpreter of Cordelia Chase had found the strength to recount her young years after Ray Fisher came out of silence. She had particularly badly experienced certain remarks heard when she was pregnant with her son Donovan, born in 2003. “He demanded that we meet in a room by closing the door tightlyshe remembered. He asked me if I was really going to keep him and used my femininity and my faith against me. He attacked who I was, made fun of my religious beliefs, accused me of wanting to sabotage the show, then unceremoniously fired me the following season after I gave birth.“His version of the facts? Memories”charming” and “delicious” and nothing else. It makes you wonder who was the real vampire of the situation…