It's been a while since we got a good Giles fix. Sure, there are Buffy, the Vampire Slayer reruns and DVD sets, and those sing-a-long events for Once More with Feeling. There's even some new Giles in the Season Eight comic book series, but it's not the same. So here's your major Giles fix. Anthony Stewart Head is guest starring in the BBC drama Hotel Babylon, where each week the staff helps new guests satisfy their desires. The show airs on BBC America, and Head indulged all the Buffy fandom questions while he was here.
CraveOnline: Are you aware of the Season Eight comic book series?
Anthony Stewart Head: He sent me a couple. It's very interesting stuff. It's great stuff. I want him to make more TV and more film. He's a great comic book writer and I think it's time to have him back again. But anything that Joss is involved with is always class, it's always well written and beautifully turned out.
CraveOnline: Do read that and think maybe you'd like to be acting that?
Anthony Stewart Head: Yeah, yeah. In retrospect, I know that seven seasons was long enough. At the same time, it would be nice to revisit some of that. So who knows. Sometime down the line we might, if we're not all too old.
CraveOnline: What do you think of what Giles is doing?
Anthony Stewart Head: Basically he sent me the first one. I haven't seen anything after that.
CraveOnline: Wait, Giles isn't even in the first one.
Anthony Stewart Head: Well, he's just there. A tiny bit. You got a little taste. As I was saying, I love what Joss has done and I hope he does more. Who knows if anything will ever come to the screen but we want him back to do some movies and some TV.
CraveOnline: Do you and Joss ever still talk about doing Ripper?
Anthony Stewart Head: We talk about it. It's not dead. I'd like to think one day we might do something with it but we talk about it ad infinitum. We do talk about other stuff but he always says he wants to do it sometime.
CraveOnline: Are you aware of the sing-a-longs people attend for Once More with Feeling?
Anthony Stewart Head: I heard about it, yeah. I was asked if I could come to something, there was a special showing here.
CraveOnline: Have you been to one?
Anthony Stewart Head: No, I'd love to. Do people dress up and do the full Rocky Horror thing.
CraveOnline: It's not Rocky Horror because no one is making fun of it. But there is audience participation like opening poppers when Tara sings, "You make me com…plete."
Anthony Stewart Head: [Laughs] Fantastic. You mean that innuendo wasn't lost on the audience? You see, that's what you can get away with and what you can't get away with. Joss Whedon got away with a few great little moments. There's a moment where Willow actually said fu** but they cut it. She jumped time just as she said it. He had her saying something else, "Oh forget…" or something like that, so he cut it on "Oh, f- -" so the network couldn't stop it.
CraveOnline: So what is your character's special request of Hotel Babylon?
Anthony Stewart Head: I play a suicidal jingle writer who actually, during the show, writes a very, very bad jingle about PMS. We talked about where to pitch it and we pitched it slightly too high. I had to really sing high for it but I sang it in earnest. Basically they accidentally put me in the penthouse suite and suddenly realized that I could throw myself off the balcony. So Max [Beesely] does a very good job of placating me and just making things work for me. I nearly electrocute myself with my keyboard in the bath.
CraveOnline: So we'll get to hear you sing again?
Anthony Stewart Head: Yes, well, badly because I sang in earnest. I wasn't going to do like a comedy turn on it but it was excruciating.
CraveOnline: And there's a hopeful message because he saves you?
Anthony Stewart Head: It has to be said it's a show with a wry smile. It's got a real glossy look. It looks very spectacular and it's a fun show.
CraveOnline: What is your best real life hotel story?
Anthony Stewart Head: I don't know if I've got one. Hotels are sort of very much like my charactere. You find when you're in a hotel, its' very faceless. I'm always just kind of sad to be away from home. I don't have anything decadent.
CraveOnline: So that's one episode. What else are you working on?
Anthony Stewart Head: I did an episode of Dr. Who which is excellent. It's called School Reunion and I got to play a really particularly unpleasant headmaster who ate children actually. Teachers and everybody else but he would snack on children. At the moment, I'm doing a comedy for England called Sold, it's about realtors. There's something that I can't talk about yet which is very exciting. I'm supposed to be doing a film right now. I couldn't have been here if I was doing the film which was based on Opera. I was going to be singing in Cosi Fan Tutte which would have been really cool but it didn't work out.
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