Yellowjackets has one of the distinctive casts on TV because of the teenager characters and their grownup counterparts, all of whom are outlined by those that died within the wilderness after the Yellowjackets soccer group’s airplane crashed within the Canadian wilderness, leaving them stranded for 19 months.
One dying marked the purpose of no return for the women: Jackie’s. Ella Purnell‘s character went from beloved to detested by her teammates within the first season, and her rejection made it simple for the offended and traumatized (and pregnant) Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) to forged her finest buddy out into the chilly the place she froze to dying. She’s not the one casualty of the wilderness, however she was the primary physique the teenagers ate.
Suffice it to say that we’ll by no means see an grownup Jackie within the sequence, except it has a hallucinatory trick up its sleeve to indicate what Jackie would appear to be as an grownup. No matter whether or not that’s even remotely on the desk for this trippy plot, followers (and we) have at all times puzzled who would play grownup Jackie if she had lived to maturity. Forward of the Season 3 premiere on Friday, February 14, we requested the celebs of Yellowjackets to share their concepts. Their responses are within the video above.
There’s just one title who comes up twice within the video: The Mentalist‘s Robin Tunney. Melanie Lynskey tells us that she’s seen followers throw round this concept on-line for the reason that sequence started. Kevin Alves (who performs Travis) had the identical thought as Lynskey. Another pitches: Susan Sarandon, Marion Cotillard, Keri Russell, and even Christina Ricci. Ricci, in fact, already performs grownup Misty, however younger Misty actor Samantha Hanratty tells us that she’s seen followers say that her grownup counterpart seems to be extra like grownup Jackie than her.
Hanratty rightly says that relating to the teenager and grownup castings, it’s much less about actual lookalikes and extra about an actor’s skill to seize the “essence” of their narrative different half. “None of us actually appear to be our counterparts,” Sophie Thatcher (teen Natalie) says above, as Hanratty provides, “till you see us” absolutely in-character.
See the Yellowjackets stars’ takes on who would play grownup Jackie within the full video above, and see the supernatural thriller proceed to unfold in Season 3.
Yellowjackets, Season 3 Premiere (two episodes), Accessible Now, Paramount+ With Showtime, Airs Sunday, February 16, 8/7c, Showtime