In an interview with Brian Wilkinson at Millarworld.tv, James Marsters (Spike) revealed some behind the scenes trivia:
Later in the series, after Spike and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), began their unlikely screen romance, Marsters recalls one bizarre instance where the script called for him to lick Gellar. “I couldn’t do it,” he says to laughter. “Sarah was so funny. She said “you could rape me last year, but you can’t lick me?” “I told her that I loved her like a sister, warts and all. Kissing is one thing, but licking?”
Related episodes: 7.08 Sleeper
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Wynter on June 14th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I think this trivia belongs in the Sleeper episode, Jess. Spike doesn’t lick Buffy in Beneath You, but he does in Sleeper - when they’re in the random woman’s basement during one of the end scenes.
While she’s fighting the vampires, two get a hold of her, and she has a cut on her arm, which Spike then licks, having been triggered.
If that made any sense.
Jess on June 14th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Grand stuff, I’ve changed that.