Nicky and Kelly Brendon
Twenty-eight years
ago, Nicky Brendon, Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, made
his debut three minutes after his identical twin, Kelly, in a Los Angeles
hospital. These days, Kelly, who spent the past five years working
in film and TV production , is following Nicky---into acting. But
the pair, who share a two-bedroom L.A. apartment, occasionally part company.
Kelly: I'm the
neat one.
Nicky: He's not
neat. He used to be really, really neat, but he's let himself go
a little bit.
Kelly: I'm the
clotheshorse. He borrows more of mine than I borrow of his.
Nicky: Are you
insane?
Kelly: I just
steal your clothes and don't return them.
Nicky: Hands down,
Kelly steals more clothes. He also works out more. I
go to the gym because I enjoy it. Kelly goes because he feels he
really needs it.
Kelly: I have
to become one notch more beautiful.
Nicky: I wake
up and it's like, "Oh, God, I hope I look that pretty."
Kelly: As we get
older, we're starting to look different. Even our faces are changing
a little bit.
Nicky: And I started
growing my hair out.
Kelly: People
still mistake me for Nick. If a little kid comes up, I say, "yeah."
If an adult comes up and asks me if I'm the guy on Buffy, then I
say, "No, we're twins." They say "Oh, sure, you're twins."
Once, people did throw french fries and napkins at me when they didn't
believe me.
Nicky: Kelly goes
out too much. [Laughs]
Kelly: He pays
me $200 a week to sign autographs.