Sarah has had the chance recently to play characters other than Buffy in the show. Was this a decision by the writers to give her more fun stuff to do?

I think the episodes where Sarah’s gotten to do something with a completely different colour than the normal Buffy - the one where she switched bodies with Faith and the Buffy Bot - I think those came much more out of story.

It was just like, "Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what Spike would do with this Bot, wouldn’t it be interesting to see what Faith would do with Buffy, what Buffy would do with Faith", to see how those personalities affect each other. I think the bonus [was that] it was an extra scoop of ice-cream that Sarah got to to do these extra things.

It was wonderful for us to get to see it, but I really think they came originally out of just the necessity of story.