Yellowjackets' Melanie Lynskey on turning down Buffy audition
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Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey has revealed the reason why she initially turned down the opportunity to audition for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In an interview for the newsletter Shut Up Evan, Lynskey revealed that she'd been offered an audition for the role of Willow Rosenberg on the famous vampire series, but turned it down following advice from her agent at the time.
"I also was not sure about doing television at that time," she explained.
"It was very early in my career. I had a very old-school agent who was like, 'TV? That's 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."
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Despite turning down the offer, Lynskey stayed in touch with series creator Joss Whedon and was given another opportunity to read for the role after the original actress Riff Regan was recast.
"I had seen the pilot and I was like, 'Oh, this is good," she said. "And then, it became this whole thing of, 'Well, now you have to audition.' 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!"
The role ultimately went to How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan, something which Lynskey has no hard feelings over.
"Alyson got it, who was absolutely wonderful and all was [cast] as it should have been," the actress added.
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Lynskey has since gone on to star in a number of high profile TV and film roles, recently picking up Emmy nominations for her work in Yellowjackets and The Last of Us.
Her next movie role will see her star in Andrew Niccol's I, Object alongside Karl Urban, Jemaine Clement and Thomasin McKenzie.
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