In every generation, there is a picked one. And, regrettably for Melanie Lynskey, she was not chosen to stand together with Buffy Summers versus the vampires, satanic forces and forces of darkness.
“It was kind of a visa issue,” the New Zealand local just recently exposed on the Shut Up Evan: The Newsletter podcast of handing down the chance to play the slayer’s BFF Willow Rosenberg in the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer “But not really. I also was not sure about doing television at that time.”
Some two-and-a-half years prior to she ‘d star on Yellowjackets, the Coyote Ugly and Sweet Home Alabama starlet discussed, “I had a very old-school agent who was like, ‘TV? That’s for has-beens!'” Though she at first objected–“I was like, ‘I don’t think it is anymore'”– eventually, she continued, “I just wasn’t super into it at the time.”
Sisters alum Riff Regan captured the part, however when developer Joss Whedon was seeking to modify the function of the OG Scooby Gang member, he reached back out toLynskey
