“That is probably the most enjoyable and thrilling season but. It’s very good and surprising — and folks die,” teases Christina Ricci, who performs the grownup model of pert however lethal folks pleaser and perpetual outsider, nurse Misty Quigley on the dual-timeline psychological horror thriller Yellowjackets. The sequence follows a highschool soccer staff stranded within the wilderness after a 1996 aircraft crash, and those self same characters, post-rescue, 25 years later. The ladies are haunted by the key cannibalism that stored them alive (to cowl it up, they’ve killed once more) and divided on the existence of a mysterious bloodthirsty entity that will have adopted them out of the woods.
Misty, the odd one out of the oddball group, suffered one other trauma within the second installment’s finale, which aired in Might of 2023. The survivors had been gathered at unhinged guru Lottie’s (Simone Kessell) spirituality retreat and issues spiraled into them recreating their teenage ritualistic hunt. The prey was stay-at-home mother Shauna (Melanie Lynskey). Within the chaos Misty by chance fatally stabbed her imagined bestie, rebellious Natalie (Juliette Lewis), with a syringe of phenobarbital. Authorities blamed an unintentional overdose, Lottie was taken to a psychiatric hospital, Misty’s boyfriend Walter (Elijah Wooden) poisoned a cop and framed him for the homicide Shauna dedicated, and the Yellowjackets carried on with extra to cover.
Ricci previews what’s subsequent for Misty when Season 3 premieres on February 14 (streaming, two days later linearly).
What’s it like with out Juliette on set?
Christina Ricci: I actually miss her. She’s great, real, and enjoyable. We had been all very bonded, like sisters. We fought; we had been associates. We spent hours and hours collectively, depressing, chilly in the midst of the night time out taking pictures. That bonds folks.
How is Misty dealing with Natalie’s demise? It’s not the primary time she by chance killed a bestie. Within the teen timeline, her confession to Crystal that she’d destroyed the aircraft’s emergency beacon shocked her pal into backing off a cliff.
She will’t grieve once we see her to start with. Walter is making an attempt to push her to grieve and get via that course of. She goes to [Natalie’s] storage unit [and] as a result of she doesn’t have numerous wholesome emotional intelligence, coping abilities, or self-awareness, decides that as a substitute of grieving, she’s going to maintain Natalie alive indirectly — dressing like Natalie [in her leather jacket] and [doing] what Natalie used to do, go to bars and drink after which…stuff occurs. Misty misplaces her aggression for a little bit of the season till she will be able to discover a focus.
Beware anybody in murderous Misty’s crosshairs! Somebody higher warn the mysterious new character performed by Hilary Swank, who seems to be fairly overwhelmed up in photographs from the set. What was it prefer to have her be part of the solid?
I used to be actually excited. I’ve at all times been an enormous fan. She’s such an exquisite actress and her efficiency in Million Greenback Child is one in all my favourite performances ever. When she got here, everybody was like, “Oh, do you assume she’s going to be good?” I used to be like, “It doesn’t matter. She is a two-time Oscar winner! She doesn’t need to be good to us.” She occurs to be actually pretty. So, nice bonus.
Might her character be a risk? The teaser trailer implies somebody is making an attempt to kill the Yellowjackets.
That’s one thing that’s mentioned by characters within the present, however whether or not that could be a main storyline or not is but to be found.
Was something difficult to shoot this season?
The youthful solid has a a lot worse time as a result of they’re at all times out within the woods and it’s normally nighttime. We had a style of it as a result of that’s the place we shot the Juliette demise scene. Wind will make me gag till I throw up. I don’t like chilly, rain. I had them satisfied that we couldn’t get my wig moist; then, lastly, any person discovered that, no, you possibly can. This season there was numerous working at one level, and it made me very drained.
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Season 2’s 1996 timeline ended with a fireplace destroying the kids’ solely shelter, an deserted cabin, in the midst of winter. Did you spend time with Sammi Hanratty who performs the younger Misty?
We talked slightly bit. As a result of it’s Vancouver and I’ve youngsters and so they’re in LA, I fly in, do my scenes, and I go away. I’ve one scene with one of many youthful solid this 12 months, and that was form of superb. It had by no means occurred earlier than.
Intriguing! What else is new for Misty?
She’s been smiling via rejection for the reason that wilderness and earlier than. I’ve problem typically taking part in the scenes the place somebody will likely be nasty to Misty, and it’s like she doesn’t hear it. This season, there’s going to be much more actual emotional expression. [That’s] simpler to play. It is smart when any person’s imply to me in a scene and I get to really feel damage and be nasty again.
Yellowjackets, Season 3 Premiere (two episodes), February 14 on Paramount+ with Showtime; February 16, Showtime