Charisma Carpenter is hopeful that her Buffy the Vampire Slayer character will have the opportunity to return in the sequel series currently in development at Hulu.
In a recent interview, the star said her character had an “unjust” ending on the Angel spinoff and it would be “poetic” to return to the Buffy universe to make things right.
“I am so excited for fans, and I know it will be fantastic because of who’s involved,” Carpenter said in an interview with IGN. “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.”
Carpenter’s Cordelia was one of the OG characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first three seasons. She would continue portraying the role in the Angel spinoff for an additional four seasons before being killed off in Season 5.
“I don’t know really what to make of it,” Carpenter said of her character dying on the show. “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.”
Deaths in the Buffy universe have not been a factor in reviving characters. Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy died and was brought back from the dead twice. Carpenter says that “writers are wildly creative” and could find a way to bring Cordelia back somehow.
“Listen, you’re not gonna get an argument out of me,” Carpenter added. “Because the way it went down for her was just — without using inflammatory language — just was not… she was built up so big, she’d grown so much, she’d had this remarkable journey, and for her to go out the way that she did just felt so unjust.”
Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, directs the pilot, written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face).
In a recent interview, Gellar expressed her desire to bring back all the characters who died in the original series.
“It will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original,” Gellar told Vanity Fair in an interview at the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival. “We will try to find a balance between new and old characters. My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new stories as well.”