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Why Is Cordelia Off Angel?
oss Whedon, co-creator of The WB’s Angel, confirmed to TV Guide Online that Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) won’t be coming back to the vampire series and talked about the reason. “Mainly because we felt like we had taken that storyjust like Buffy [the Vampire Slayer] for seven yearsabout as far as it could go,” Whedon told the site. “The Angel/Cordelia [love story] had gone pretty much as far as we wanted to take it. Their romance was definitely not a popular move on our part, and I think with most fans.”
Whedon added, “It just seemed like it was time, because we were revamping the show, and then paring it down. … It just seemed like a good time for certain people to move on. Not completely, obviously. I’m hoping that we’ll get Charisma to do some episodes as Cordelia sometime during the year. She’s a new mother, so, like [Buffy star] Sarah [Michelle Gellar], I’m waiting to hear what her schedule is like.”
Whedon said that the show parted with Carpenter on good terms, but added, “Yeah, but that’s also stuff between us and not stuff that I would talk about in an interview.” Angel returns to its 9 p.m. ET/PT Wednesday timeslot in the fall.
