{"id":27284,"date":"2023-07-19T19:11:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/melanie-lynskey-rejected-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-role\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:11:27","slug":"melanie-lynskey-rejected-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/melanie-lynskey-rejected-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Lynskey rejected Buffy the Vampire Slayer role"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Melanie Lynskey rejected a role in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.<\/p>\n

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Melanie Lynskey could’ve joined the hit TV show<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old actress was invited to audition for the role of Buffy’s best friend Willow, but Melanie ultimately decided to reject the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Melanie – who was born and raised in New Zealand – told Shut Up Evan: The Newsletter: “It was kind of a visa issue, but not really; I also was not sure about doing television at that time. <\/p>\n

“It was very early in my career. I had a very old-school agent who was like, ‘TV? That\u2019s for has-beens!’ and I was like, ‘I don’t think it is anymore.’ Certainly now things have really changed, but I just wasn’t super into it at the time.”<\/p>\n

Melanie discussed joining the show with Joss Whedon, the writer and director. But the role was ultimately handed to Alyson Hannigan<\/a> and Melanie believes that she did an “absolutely wonderful” job.<\/p>\n

\nThe actress explained: “I had a dinner with Joss and I don’t remember if it was an offer or if it was like, ‘Would you come read for it?’ or what it was, but we stayed in touch after that. And then I guess they were replacing the person from the pilot at a certain point and I had stayed in touch with [Joss], and he said, ‘Now do you think you would want to do it?’ And I had seen the pilot and I was like, ‘Oh, this is good,’ and I kind of took my agent into it. And then, it became this whole thing of, ‘Well, now you have to audition.’ <\/p>\n

\n“So I auditioned. Then: ‘Oh, they didn’t like what you were wearing.’ It was a whole process. And then I didn’t get it! <\/p>\n

\n“Alyson Hannigan got it, who was absolutely wonderful and all was [cast] as it should have been. That was the actual story.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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