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‘The Flash’ actor Jessica Parker Kennedy is desperate to play ‘spirit animal’ Buffy in upcoming reboot

Jessica Parker Kennedy, who plays Nora West-Allen on superhero show ‘The Flash’, wants to play the titular role in the upcoming ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ reboot (The CW)
Jessica Parker Kennedy, who plays Nora West-Allen on superhero show ‘The Flash’, wants to play the titular role in the upcoming ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ reboot (The CW)

She might currently be starring as Nora West-Allen, the daughter of the show’s titular superhero, on The Flash but Canadian actress Jessica Parker Kennedy is already setting her sights on her next dream project: the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.

In 2018, it was announced that Joss Whedon was developing the new series and looking to cast a black actor in the lead role. Appearing as a guest on The Tomorrow Show, the 34-year-old said that not only was she “very excited it’s coming back” but that she’d be the perfect candidate.

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“I can’t even speak on it because all I want in my life is just Buffy to be a big, big part of my life. Obviously, I think I should be Buffy,” she gushed to host Roxy Striar. “I hope I get to audition for it as many times as possible, even if I need to crawl my way into that audition room…

When Striar quizzed her on whether she has started to try and get into that hypothetical audition room, Kennedy admitted to have already “made that call.”

She continued: “I’m telling the world, I’ve made that call, because I just would love that so, so, so much.”

“This is me. I have a night shirt that I sleep in that’s a Buffy shirt, and it says ‘I Slay’, and in the morning I wake up and I stretch and I go, ‘ughhh, Buffy!’ and then I start my day. Now this isn’t every day, but this is a lot of days. So this is like a part of me…

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Kennedy described herself as a super fan, adding that whenever something cool would happen to her character Nora on The Flash, she would freak out because it would remind her of Buffy.

“Just because that, she’s like my spirit animal, so she motivates me.”

The Flash airs on Tuesdays on The CW at 8pm/7pm central. It airs on Sky One on Thursdays at 8pm.