Sarah: I'm good. I'm a little cold, but I'm good.
Letterman: You'll be all right.
Sarah: Okay.
Letterman: Should we heat up that place, or are you gonna live through it?
Sarah: I think I'll make it.
Letterman: Oh, come on, toughen up a little bit, ya know?
Sarah: I'll do it for you.
Letterman: Pretend that it's outward bound.
Sarah: I'm tough.
Letterman: All right, good. Uh, you were on the show years and years ago, right?
Sarah: Yeah, I did the show the first time when I was five.
Letterman: Yeah, and that was that, do you remember?
Sarah: It was a safety skit, and I got to wear a big box on my head. But, I couldn't quite make it through the door, and I kinda hit my head. But you helped me.
Letterman: Oh, good.
Sarah: Yeah.
Letterman: How uncharacteristically thoughtful of me. And do we have a videotape of that appearance? This is, uh, when you were five, how many years ago would that have been?
Sarah: Uh, Fifteen.
Letterman: Oh, my God, fif...Paul, do you remember this?
Paul: Fifteen years ago.
Letterman: Yeah.
Paul: Yeah, sorta, yeah.
Letterman: Can we show the videotape? Here we go. Uh, this is fifteen years ago, the safety skit, uh, the box on your head? All right, let's take a look at (The Property of NBC screen comes up) Oh, sorry, we can't look at that. Can't see that, that's too darn bad. What is, uh, it's a shame, really. (audience cheers) Wow. Audience in a different time zone. What, by the way, congratulations on your success. You've really come a long way from the old safety skit, haven't you?
Sarah: I didn't run into any walls on my way out here.
Letterman: Uh, what is Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Tell people, you're a high school girl, who also fights vampires, right?
Sarah: I'm like your average 16 year old California girl. I go to school by day, and fight vampires by night.
Letterman: And is it, is it funny, is it wacky, is it ironic, is it campy, is it what...
Sarah: It's all of the above. It's a wonderful combination of drama, action, horror, comedy.
Letterman: And people like it, don't they?
Sarah: You like it, don't you?
Letterman: Oh, yeah, I'm there dude, every Wednesday night.
Sarah: (fake-coughing into her hand) Monday.
Letterman: Every Monday night, I'm there, dude. And these, these other movies are unbelievable, they're like #1 films, all of a sudden you're like a huge deal, I mean, when you go out, people must swarm you.
Sarah: Uh, it happens a lot. Luckily, I have no social life, I never actually go out when I'm home, so that helps a lot.
Letterman: I know how that works.
Sarah: Maybe we should not go out some time.
DL: Oh, great. Don't call me and we'll set it up.
Sarah: Okay.
Letterman: Uh, but I mean, do you have boys, teenage boys go crazy for you?
Sarah: I get a lot of 12, 13, 14-year old boys. Yeah, it's a little young for me. 16 would have been okay, but 12, I just, I'd feel wrong about that.
Letterman: Yeah. And do they, like, follow you around wherever you go and stuff?
Sarah: Well, only until about 8:00 when they have to go home, but then, ya know, then I'm pretty okay for the rest of the night.
Letterman: And do you have, like a boyfriend of your own, are you involved with someone?
Sarah: I'm horribly single.
Letterman: Oh, good for you.
Sarah: (laughing) Good for me!
Letterman: Do you have a house?
Sarah: I do, I just bought my first house, which was really exciting.
Letterman: Congratulations, what kind of place did you get?
Sarah: Um, a nice little small house, got my first car, my first house, my first dog.
Letterman: 20 years old, and you own a house.
Sarah: Yes I do.
Letterman: That's remarkable, isn't it?
Sarah: Thank you.
Letterman: Do you feel any pressure there, owning a house?
Sarah: Well, paying the mortgage.
Letterman: Yeah, well, you can probably swing that, can't you?
Sarah: I'm working on it.
Letterman: And when you have time off, you probably have no time off to speak of though, you're always working, aren't you?
Sarah: Well, this year they've been very nice. We actually get Christmas off this year, as opposed to last year. So, you know, now that we're a big hit, we get the big holidays off.
Letterman: Do you get go anywhere, do you have hobbies, do you play golf, you do any of that?
Sarah: I do, I actually tried golf, because David Boreanaz, that plays my boyfriend on the show, is this huge golfer, and they all love golf, but I am horrible at golf. But let me tell you, I look really cute when I bend over to pick up the little balls off the tees, and I like driving the little carts. Now miniature golf is another drill. I'm really good, the whole windmill thing, I got that going on.
Letterman: And how long are you going to be in New York City?
Sarah: I'm in New York for, uh, just for the weekend, we're promoting Scream 2, it's going to open December 12th. (Audience member cheers) Thank you! The one person who's going to go see it! And, uh, then I go back to work Monday morning. It's one of those, I came in this morning-
Letterman: Well, I appreciate it. It was nice of you to fit us into your schedule, and congratulations on the, uh, success, and I'd like to think that, you know, we had some small part in launching this career.
Sarah: With the big bump on my head, the scar across my forehead. Actually, twice, I did a Christmas skit once also. There you go.
Letterman: Yeah. And now.
Sarah: It's me.
Letterman: Well, thank you very much, nice meeting you.