Mallory Rubin

Tara is... I think all of the aspects of her character that I've seen so far, the sort of like...

gentleness and the quiet there's something about the way she encourages Willow and her magic and that they encourage each other that is very like empowering and just nurturing and I love that as something in a romantic partner and a friend and someone you're pursuing like a a pursuit a pursuit with pursuing a pursuit professional podcaster here folks um signs of portents signs of portents portents and signs um

The way in the Wicca group meeting with the other students that not only right away we feel that synchronicity between Willow and Tara as people who are...

connected to this magic and to the idea of being a witch and the role of magic in their lives that is distinct from the other people who show up for some completely, like, lesser reason, maybe the social hang or the kind of, like, whatever.

But...

Beyond just that connection that it forges right away between the two of them, I loved what it told us about Tara, you know, the way that the kind of, like, mean girl in the group is like, did you have something to say?

And then Tara recedes and is shy.

And so it shows us the shyness, but more than that, and this is about, like, her magic is a witch.

You know, you mentioned the stutter, her sexuality and navigating that.

You wonder right away, like how many times and how many moments in Tara's life here at Sunnydale, but in all the years before, has she been surrounded by a group of people who'd

don't see her clearly and accept her for who she is or embrace her for who she is.

So I just feel very tenderly toward her.

And like, I thought that the kind of graciousness and generosity with which she navigated Oz's return was like pretty amazing.

And that not a lot of people on this show or in any walk of life would have been able to be that giving to another person.

So I'm, I'm a fan so far.

I'm excited to see, and of course she's a cat lover.

So, you know,

Harrowing for me to confront that Willow was like team dog.

I love dogs.

I love all animals.