Charisma Carpenter, who won't be returning as a regular cast
member on The WB's Angel, spoke for the first time about her
abrupt departure in an interview with the Boston Herald and said
she was as shocked as anyone. "I was not prepared," Carpenter told
the newspaper. "I don't think you're ever prepared for that kind
of situation."
Carpenter played the acid-tongued Cordelia Chase for three years
on Buffy the Vampire Slayer before moving over to The WB's spinoff
series. "Seven years, that's a long time," she said. "I started
that show. To not be finishing it is a pretty big deal for me.
They went back to work on July 24. ... On that day I thought, 'Oh,
today is officially my first day of unemployment.'"
Last spring, Carpenter returned to Angel just 10 days after giving
birth to her son, Donovan, and spent two long days on the set,
wrapping up the season, the newspaper reported. She said she is
absolutely willing to return to the series to provide closure to
her character's story arc and bring Cordy out of the coma in which
she remained during last season's finale. "I think it would be
incomplete if it wasn't addressed but I don't know what's being
planned," she said. "I haven't heard anything. As we speak today,
there are no plans for me to come back."
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