It was another successful Hellmouth Con at Torrance High School over Fathers’ Day Weekend. Hundreds of Buffy and Angel fans got to meet their favorite actors from Buffy and Angel (plus a couple from True Blood), and discuss the show’s impact over nearly 30 years.

One panel featured three actors who appeared on Buffy. Robia Scott was computer teacher (and Romani mole) Jenny Calendar. Sarah Hagen appeared in season seven as a Potential named Amanda. Harry Groener was a big part of season three as Mayor Wilkins, a guy who just wanted ultimate power and an apocalypse.

Groener was the most engaging of the group with stories about the show. He said he was supposed to get eight episodes, not including “Graduation Day, Part II”. However, his wife suggested he try to get on the finale. “She said why don’t you call them up and see if they’ll post you in the last episode,” he said. “And I said I’m not going to do that and she said don’t be an a-hole. Just give them a call.”
It worked.

He also talked about how Faith could have been Mayor Wilkins’ Achilles Heel. That could be true, since his plans started to unravel when Buffy put Faith into a coma in the Graduation Day episode. This was before Faith returned in season four and eventually moved to Angel for a while.
He also made sure the Mayor actually had honest feelings about Faith. “In the playing of it,” he says, that there was nothing at all weird or sexual. It had to be father-daughter.” Also, he said Faith accepted it because he didn’t judge her.
Playing Mayor Wilkins was interesting because he had a goal and agenda. “It becomes a question of how do you play absolute power,” he says, “which is interesting is someone with absolute power, you don’t have to do anything.”

Hagan originally appeared in “Help” as a girl named Amanda who met Buffy early in her days as a school counselor. Then Amanda was revealed to be a Potential Slayer, and was part of the final weeks of the series.
Even she was surprised by this. “I didn’t know going in that it was going to be that way, she says. “She’s in a process of discovery this whole time. You’re on this ride this whole time. I’m just a regular high school student who just winds up having this power she didn’t know about.”
She says she enjoyed being on the show, but says she never got to be at Torrance/Sunnydale High because the sets were actually in Santa Monica.

Scott admitted it was strange when she returned to the high school for the first time since “Passion” when Jenny Calendar died. She has enjoyed her return, meeting with fans who saw the episode the first time, and more recent fans.
She recalled how she was cast for the role, but didn’t know too much about the show. “I was a teacher, and thought Giles was one of my students, ” she says. “I went to the audition and Tony (Head) was there and I didn’t know who he was. I thought he was a producer of the show.”

After coming in wearing a leather jacket and black pants, she prepared for the audition, acting sassy. “I’m looking around for a trash can, Anthony’s here,” she continued, “and I take the gum out of my mouth and put it in his hand and he totally takes it.”
She eventually figured out what the role really is, and turned Jenny into a fan favorite. She does admit she didn’t like her return in “Amends” when she was an avatar for the First Evil.

Afterwards, the group met with fans with autograph sessions and photos.
The HellmouthCon will be back at Torrance High next year, and tickets are available now at the website.