spiketheforsakensoul: “There’s this love story between Spike and Dru that is very sweet,

spiketheforsakensoul: “There’s this love story between Spike and Dru that is very sweet,” she (Juliet) explains.  “It gets kinky as well, but it’s sweet.  That balances out the evil that we do.” Balance isn’t a word that suits Drusilla at all.  When we first see her in Buffy’s second season she is sickly and weak and Spike has brought her to Sunnydale with hopes of making ‘all better’.  Juliet plays the part in flowing glowns and with roving eyes as she teases dead birds and ties up her dolls. “There is an element of what I call ‘touched’.  Angel was obsessed with her, you see, so he killed her family and tortured her ruthlessly driving her to a convent for refuse.  On the night she was to take her vows, he made her into a vampire.  Now she has a sort of neurosis where she thinks of the daisies dying or her hair falling out.  Spike rescues her from those moments.” He does indeed.  As evil as the couple may be, viewers are drawn into the deep love they have for each other.  It is this ‘human’ side that makes them watchable week after week.  They dance, they kiss, they play and yes, they do snack on a teenager now and again, but you can’t hold that against them.  “When Spike and Dru are together we’re sort of gentle and sexual and it’s fun.  Sometimes when you play a villain it’s very one-dimensional but with Dru I have a lot of other colours as well.” -Interview with Juliet Landau by Cythia Boris, for Cult Times, circa1998ish. -- source link

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