Turns out that Alyson Hannigan wasn’t Joss Whedon‘s first choice to play Buffy’s BFF Willow Rosenberg on Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Melanie Lynskey was!

The Yellowsjackets star opened up about the role she passed up in a new interview, revealing why she said no to the offer in the first place.

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Melanie revealed the not-well-known fact during a feature with Shut Up Evan‘s newsletter, sharing that Joss originally wanted her for the role.

“It was kind of a visa issue,” Melanie shared at first, before adding, “but not really. I also was not sure about doing television at that time.”

She recalled that she was advised by her then agent not to take the part.

“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,’” Melanie said. “Certainly, now, things have really changed, but I just wasn’t super into it at the time.”

Alyson went on to star in the role for all 7 seasons from 1997 to 2003.

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