In every generation, there is a chosen one. And, unfortunately, why Melanie Lynskeyhe was not chosen to stand by Buffy Summers against vampires, demons and dark forces.
“It was like a visa problem,” the New Zealand native recently revealed Be quiet Evan: Letter podcast offering to play Willow Rosenberg’s fellow assassin’s BFF in the pilot episode Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “But of course not. I also didn’t know that I would be involved in television at that time.”
Twenty and a half years before he appeared Yellowjacketsand Coyote Ugly and Sweet Home Alabama the actress explained, “I had a school counselor very old who was like, ‘TV? It’s for the has-beens!’” Despite his initial resistance—“I was like, ‘I don’t think so’—in the end, he continued, “I wasn’t smart at the time.
Sisters alum Riff Regan nabbed part, but when the creator Joss Whedon was looking to replace the role of a member of the OG Scooby Gang, he also reached out to Lynskey.