Felicia Day reveals ‘Buffy: New Sunnydale’ showrunners gauged her interest in returning as the vampire slayer Vi had the series moved forward | “Of course I jumped on it.”

>Day, who is currently touring behind her first graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta, wasn’t officially part of the cast of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale reboot, but says people behind the show had approached her to gauge her interest in reprising Vi.

>“I spoke to the showrunners briefly at a party right after they shot the pilot, and they expressed a hope that everyone from the original cast would return at some point, and asked about my interest,” she says. “And of course I jumped on it.”

>“Buffy was my first real TV job, and that experience gave me hope that actors like me who weren’t 100% mainstream could actually have a career in Hollywood,” Day says. “It was where I formed friendships that last to this day. It truly influenced my whole career. To have a project that was championed by so many people who loved the characters and story snuffed out is truly sad for fans and creators.”

>“The reason I am a public geek now is because of my time on Buffy,” she says. “I’m still friends with many people in the cast. I found a place in Hollywood that felt like I was home, and I would not trade that relationship for the world.”

In other Felicia Day news:

[She will crowdfund a movie spinoff of The Guild this summer.](https://www.polygon.com/felicia-day-guild-movie-kickstarter/)

Oh this is going to get bad.

I had the BIGGEST crush on her in Buffy. Between her, Clarissa from Clarissa explains it all, and Wynona Rider in well, everything in the early to mid 90s… y’know there really were a lot of solid women roles and actresses in that era that weren’t just sexpots or tokenism, even though I still had massive crushes.