One of the most iconic episodes ofBuffy the Vampire Slayeris, without a doubt, season 5s The Body.
What follows is an unbroken single shot of Buffy frantically trying to revive Joyce and calling 911.
It was a dance, says Gellar of shooting.
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We did it maybe three or four times.
I always say that performance was all of us together.
Eventually, Buffy has to go to her sister Dawns school and tell her the terrible news.
The audience watches the scene silently as Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) crumbles upon hearing of her mothers death.
Joss wrote complete dialogue for when Buffy came to tell me, remembers Trachtenburg.
The whole scene was scripted.
I tried so hard to talk him out of it, she admits.
I was not happy about it.
Sutherland says its the thing that mostBuffyviewers ask her about.
Most fans end up talking to me about The Body,' she says.
For Whedon, the episode had a very personal goal.
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The hour registers very personally for Gellar, too, but in a different way.
Its too hard for me.
Im an only child.
Its just me and my mom.
That was just a hard concept to grasp.
