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Charisma Carpenter was with Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the very beginning and now the star is hoping to right the wrongs done to her character, Cordelia Chase, in the sequel series. After appearing as the high school cheer captain bully-turned-semi-friend of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy Summers and the rest of the so-called Scooby Gang, Carpenter’s character left Sunnydale for Los Angeles when David Boreanaz’s vampire, Angel, landed his own eponymous spin-off in 1999. From there, Cordelia was an integral part of the show’s primary group, but was unceremoniously killed off towards the offshoot’s end.
With recent comments made by Gellar that indicate the eagerly-awaited follow-up will bring back characters from the past even if they were killed off, a unique window of opportunity has opened — one that Carpenter hopes to climb through. During a recent chat with IGN in support of her new rewatch podcast, Carpenter said,
“I am so excited for fans, and I know it will be fantastic because of who’s involved. To see this actually happen for the fans makes me thrilled. I am so hopeful to be included, for Cordelia to be a part of this new iteration.”
Still, Carpenter is doing her best not to get too far ahead of herself, adding, “I don’t know really what to make of it,” in terms of characters rising from the dead for the sequel. Viewing the possibility with a glass-half-full mentality, she said,
“I’m sure there are caveats — Cordelia died on Angel not on Buffy. I don’t know what that means for Cordelia specifically — but I’m hopeful that it includes Cordelia, obviously, it would be a dream to be included, and it would just be so poetic for that to occur, and for it to occur with this group. These writers are wildly creative, I’m sure they could figure it out if they wanted to, if it was a fan thing, where if there was a thirst or craving or need for Cordelia to be there, I’m sure with one hell of a creative team they have leading the writers room, it would be possible.”
Source: IGN