[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 3 Episode 3 “Them’s the Brakes.”]
It wouldn’t be Yellowjackets with out an eerie look by the expensive departed, snarky soccer staff captain Jackie (Ella Purnell). She froze to demise within the Season 1 finale after stomping out of the cabin to sleep by the hearth following a combat together with her bestie Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) within the 1996 timeline. Her corpse was finally become a meal by the ravenous gamers.
Within the February 21 episode, “Snackie,” as some followers name her, had a starring function in Shauna’s hallucination after the teenager inhaled poisonous fumes in a cave. The terrifying sequence noticed Jackie flip a slap bracelet right into a homicide weapon that encircled Shauna’s throat.
“I believe it’s only a metaphor that your demons will hang-out you without end till you’ve made peace with it,” says Nélisse of why Shauna continues to “see” Jackie. (Watch the video interview above.) “[Shauna] nonetheless holds a variety of grief and a variety of guilt for Jackie’s demise. She feels extraordinarily accountable, despite the fact that it wasn’t absolutely her fault, and she will’t forgive herself for these occasions. So, I believe, clearly, the demons maintain chasing her is the rationale why she additionally sees her son in her dream.”
But when teen Shauna was haunted and depressing, Nélisse had a blast taking pictures the bloody sequence. “It’s enjoyable to have Ella again as a result of it simply brings me straight again into taking pictures Season 1. And it’s additionally good as a result of at any time when a personality dies, you’re like, ‘Oh, that is wonderful, you’ll be again to hang-out me in some way.’ And so, yeah, we had a variety of enjoyable enjoying that scene. And hopefully she’s again in Season 4 once more.”
Maintain up. We haven’t had our fill of Jackie in Season 3. Give grownup Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) a chunk!
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