The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of Angel and in the last five episodes of Buffy. And they send me pictures – “Oh, here’s a picture of me before I was incarcerated!” – and there’s some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, and a big gut. She followed that up with Soul Survivors, reuniting her with Race The Sun co-star Casey Affleck. The latter film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews. Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which would have been about Faith. in an interview with Maxim in May 2001, Dushku says of her roles, “It’s easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you’ve been told not to do, and you don’t have to deal with the consequences, because it’s only acting.” Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing “Van’s sister”, a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based. She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer (which were later dismissed).
