Buffy & Angel's First Kiss Was Improved By 1 Sarah Michelle Gellar Trick
The first kiss between Buffy and Angel on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was as romantic as it was revealing, but it's also funny when considering the trick actress Sarah Michelle Gellar used behind the scenes. The kiss saw the beginning of Buffy's epic and fraught romance with Angel and the beginning of the hilarious pranks Gellar would play on co-star David Boreanaz. These tricks are not only a fun bit of behind-the-scenes trivia, but they also contributed to the success of the on-screen relationship between their respective characters, Buffy and Angel, on the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 1, episode 7, “Angel,” Buffy and Angel are attacked by the Master’s minions and are forced to hunker down in Buffy’s house. Angel reveals his feelings for Buffy, and they share their first kiss. After a passionate moment, Angel pulls away and reveals to Buffy that he is a vampire. In a DVD behind-the-scenes featurette of Buffy the Vampire season 1, show creator Joss Whedon described the prank behind Buffy and Angel’s first kiss: "Sarah and David had a breath off. They both ate as many horrible things as they could before they kissed, just to be fun.”
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This “breath-off” was the beginning of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s many pranks directed at David Boreanaz during their Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel appearances. She said she would do what she could to make filming the sexy scenes as fun and “unsexy” as possible without ruining the scene. Gellar eating horrible food that left an atrocious stench — like fish and pickles — to mess with Boreanaz during kissing scenes began a string of tricks and pranks between the two actors that
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