10 More TV Storylines Actors REFUSED To Do

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season six episode "Seeing Red," fan favourite character Tara (Amber Benson) was shot and killed by Warren (Adam Busch), and as much as Joss Whedon just loves killing off his most cherished characters, in this case he initially planned for her to return.

Fans were furious with Whedon for killing Tara off - and, seemingly unintentionally, furthering the tired "Bury Your Gays" trope - enough that they demanded he finagle a supernatural means for Tara to return from the dead.

According to actress Amber Benson herself, Whedon realised that he had "made a mistake, that he had been short-sighted," and so indeed resolved to bring Tara back.

However, Benson ultimately decided against coming back for two reasons - scheduling and her lack of trust in Whedon doing the resurrection arc justice. She said in the book Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts:

"But I didn't want to come back. He really wanted me to come back and we just couldn't come to an agreement on it. And most of that was my schedule... I just didn't feel super trusting of the situation... And I felt like people had already been really hurt by this. And I'm not the writer. I can't decide what's going to happen to this character. I don't have the reins. And so between the schedule, and not really having a hundred percent trust in what was going to happen and some other things, it just didn't work out."