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Buzz Feed
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Simone Kessell Revealed How Melanie Lynskey Possibly Helped Her Land The "Yellowjackets" Role Of Adult Lottie
If you're anything like me, you're still thinking about Yellowjackets Season 3. So many twists and turns! So many character deaths! What a rollercoaster. Lottie is definitely my favorite as I can never be sure if the visions and It talk are real, or if that's all in her head — such a fresh and interesting character! So, you can imagine my heartbreak when we had to say goodbye to Adult Lottie. Simone Kessell really brought her to life with so much charm and intrigue. And those last couple of scenes at Shauna's house were wonderful. Simone and Melanie Lynskey have such great chemistry together! Well, I recently chatted with Simone for BuzzFeed's Voices of the Pacific series about her time on Yellowjackets, including behind-the-scenes memories with the fellow Kiwi actor. "I knew Melanie going into the season, and she was actually, I think, the reason why I got to play in the world of Yellowjackets because Melanie told the showrunners about me," Simone told BuzzFeed. "I'm eternally grateful for that, and through the last couple of years, we've just become incredibly close." "There have been many electric moments between us on set in character as Shauna and Lottie, which plays back so nicely into the past storyline as well," she continued. Simone said she loves Melanie "very, very much" — so lovely to hear that they're genuinely friends outside of the show, too! "I've got to say, it was a highlight getting to work with her, watching her craft. I think her work this season is sublime. She's so nuanced and honest and heartbreaking, and Melanie is so vastly different from that character. Seeing and knowing Melanie, and then seeing the work that she does as Shauna — it's very, very special to be around." "Often after work, she'd be like, [whispering] 'Should we go for a Chardonnay?' And I'd go, 'Let's go for a Chardonnay, babe,'" she concluded with a laugh.
Forbes
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Will There Be A ‘Yellowjackets' Season 4? Here's What The Creators Are Saying
L-R: Tawny Cypress as Taissa and Melanie Lynskey as Shauna in Yellowjackets, episode 9, season 3, ... More streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, 2025. The anticipated Yellowjackets Season 3 finale is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime, leaving fans with unanswered questions as the seasons wraps up. Will the story continue with a fourth season and possibly a long-awaited rescue? Here's the latest on the future of the hit survival series. Season 3 of Yellowjackets premiered in February 2025 and continued the story of a high school girls' soccer team whose journey to a national championship turned tragic when their plane crashed in the Canadian wilderness. The series weaves between past and present, showing how the survivors' lives have evolved nearly 25 years later as they confront their lingering traumas. The latest chapter picks up after the shocking death of adult Natalie Scatorccio in the Season 2 finale, and Season 3 brought even more bloodshed and drama. 'The Yellowjackets continue to fight for survival after a brutal winter in The Wilderness,' the synopsis reads. 'In the present day, still reeling from Natalie's death, the survivors are forced to uncover secrets they thought were buried for good.' As you watch the finale, which officially dropped on April 11, you might be wondering whether Yellowjackets will return for a fourth season. Here's everything we know so far, including what Season 4 could be about, according to the creators and cast. A still from Yellowjackets, episode 10, season 3, streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, 2025. Photo ... More Credit: Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME. As of April 11, Yellowjackets has not been renewed for a fourth season by Showtime. Co-showrunners Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco previously said they originally planned for five seasons. While the show hasn't been canceled, its future remains uncertain. 'The original plan was about five seasons, and we feel like we're still on track for that,' Lyle told Entertainment Weekly in March 2023. 'So far, we've been really on track.' Warning: Spoilers ahead for the ending of Yellowjackets Season 3. Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna in Yellowjackets, episode 10, season 3, streaming on Paramount+ with ... More SHOWTIME, 2025. Based on how Episode 3 ends—with Natalie discovering the plane transponder that Misty hid back in Season 1—there's a possibility that the fourth season could center around the girls' rescue. In the scene, Natalie hears a voice on the other end of the line, which says, 'Yes, I can hear you.' When asked by Variety whether there are plans for a rescue in Season 4, Lyle teased, 'We do have plans to pivot at some point, but I think everyone's going to have to watch and see when that might happen.' Speaking about what fans might expect in a potential next installment, Lyle added, 'Melissa is in the wind; the gloves are off; Misty is on a mission. I think that there's a lot of fun to be had moving forward.' Sophie Nélisse, who plays young Shauna, told The Direct she's excited for 'what's to come' in the future. While she admitted she has 'no hints,' she shared that she's really hoping for a rescue in Season 4. 'I would like them to be rescued [in season 4]. Or maybe like, partially, half [of season 4] is in the wilderness, and then half is them getting back to real life," she revealed. "And I would love to see how they cope with that, having the pressure of family and the media and school, and having to be immersed in like, a normal life after having undergone all of those events.' Meanwhile, a lot unfolds in the present day timeline: Van is killed by Melissa, and a heartbroken Taissa eats her heart as an act of love (just like in Season 2, when the survivors ate Javi Martinez's heart to honor him). Shauna's daughter Callie and husband Jeff take off after Callie confesses she accidentally killed Lottie. Melanie Lynskey, who plays adult Shauna, told Variety that she has no idea what's ahead or whether Shauna's life is at risk. 'I could be killed off in Episode 1 of Season 4. I literally don't know,' she said. By the end of Season 3, Shauna's world is spiraling out of control—her allies are gone, Jeff blames her for Lottie's death, and Taissa and Misty are targeting her. So, could she be the next to get killed off in Season 4? Likely not, according to Lyle. 'For them to band together to sort of hurt Shauna — to kill Shauna — I don't know that, for a lot of them, they really crossed that line emotionally, even though that would make a lot of sense,' Lyle toldVariety. 'They're still thinking like teenage girls. These are their friends and teammates.' Also, what would the Antler Queen look like in modern-day New Jersey? Lisco told Variety that the creators would love to explore that storyline in Season 4. 'It's interesting, to me at least, that some of the audience is saying, 'Wow, Shauna has gone so dark.' And, as Ashley said, the seeds were definitely sowed when she was doing all sorts of things, like killing a rabbit with a shovel — et cetera, et cetera — in the early stages. I feel like the word we used for it the other day was self-imprisonment,' he explained. "She was imprisoning herself in this domestic situation, and she was trying to quash all these impulses for many years, and now they have been unleashed." Stay tuned for more updates on Yellowjackets Season 4.
Forbes
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
What Time Is ‘Yellowjackets' Season 3 Finale Begin Streaming?
Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Liv Hewson"Yellowjackets" Season 3, Episode 9. Yellowjackets Season 3 wraps up this week. What time does the Season 3 finale of the hit psychological drama thriller begin streaming? Like Seasons 1 and 2 of the series, Yellowjackets is told through two separate timelines. In 1996, a private plane carrying the members of a high school girls' soccer team crashes in the Canadian Wilderness and the surviving members resort to extreme measures in order to survive. Twenty-five years later, the remaining surviving members cope with the horrors of their past actions while keeping their secrets hidden between them. Yellowjackets Season 3 features the return of stars Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins and Simone Kessell. Elijah Wood is once again featured in a recurring role, while Hilary Swank and Joel McHale appear as guest stars. The Yellowjackets Season 3 finale begins streaming on Friday at 12 p.m. PT / 3 a.m. ET on Paramount+ with Showtime. Subscriptions to the streaming service cost $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year. Note: Major spoilers for 'Yellowjackets' Season 3 are discussed in the next section. Melanie Lynskey as Shauna and Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna in "Yellowjackets" Season 3. While Yellowjackets is an ensemble series, the series largely centers around the trauma suffered by Shauna, played in her teen years by Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey as an adult. Yellowjackets Season 3 sees Shauna's life especially spinning out of control as an adult, which comes to a head when she confronts fellow surviving team member Melissa (Hilary Swank) — who was thought to be dead — and wounds her in a particularly gruesome manner. 'When it flashes back to the wilderness, that's her and all her primal power,' Lynskey told IndieWire in an interview published on Monday. 'Every decision she makes is powered by this very righteous energy that's flowing through her body, and how good that feels to her to just go with that. She's she's dulled in the present day until she has these moments.' The Yellowjackets Season 3 finale begins streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime on Friday at 12 p.m. PT / 3 a.m. ET.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
One 'Yellowjackets' scene Christina Ricci wished she had 'done more' for in Season 3
Yellowjackets Season 3 (on Crave in Canada, Paramount+ with Showtime in the U.S.) continues shock and surprise. For Misty, played by Christina Ricci, she has to deal with a lot of death in her life as an adult, adding on to what she went through in the wilderness. In Episode 5 Misty's core motivation is to get answers to who killed her friend Lottie (Simone Kessell) at the end of the previous episode. And tapping into her Citizen Detective role, Misty always does things her own way. "I'm just always interested in playing really authentic feeling individuals," Ricci said about playing Misty. "I think that she's a person born out of so much pain and trauma and rejection, and yet is sort of delightful, and entertains herself all day long, and is ... incredibly capable and efficient, and also in ways so pragmatic." "Yes, the moral compass was adjusted when they overstepped this totally insane line, but she still adheres to a morality. And it's not like her bad acts are out of pleasure or sadism, or any of that stuff. I think it's important to play characters like this, because it's all about understanding. ... I just feel like there's so many different types of people and ... to have somebody who seems extreme, but then root all that behaviour down to real human experience, I feel like that's good for people's empathy." But at the time of Lottie's death Misty had already been grieving the loss of Natalie (Juliette Lewis), including one moment earlier in the season where Misty puts on Natalie's leather jacket and goes into a bar acting like the friend she lost. While it was a particularly fun scene for the season, Ricci wished she had taken it even further. "I feel like I could have done more of that, her actually trying to be [Natalie]," Ricci said. "And sometimes it's so hard because the scenes are written for comedy, but then there's this really interesting thing that's going on underneath, and you can't focus as much on the really interesting thing underneath, because you have to play the comedy." "And it's always a really fine balance, but I would have liked to explore it more, like really trying to be like Natalie in those moments." A particular highlight in Season 3 of Yellowjackets, for both Ricci and the show's fans, is that adult Misty and adult Shauna, played by Melanie Lynskey, spend a lot more time together. That includes this week's episode where Shauna teams up with Walter (Elijah Wood) to investigate Lottie's death, and they run into Misty conducting her own investigation at the apartment where Lottie's father lives. "I love working with Mel. It's great and we make a really great team," Ricci said. "Actually, we balance each other out very, very well." "She's the nicest person in the world, and I'm the most, sort of like, absolutely no emotion. We're at work. We need to get our day done. ... It's a really fun balance for us. And then we both have small children, and we're the same age, we've known each other forever, and so it's fun just to hang out all day." With Yellowjackets, Ricci has also found it interesting going back to Misty, as she's evolving personally between seasons. "It is really hard. I've never been a part of a long term television show before," Ricci said. "And it's interesting, naturally, as you go through your life, you grow and change, and ... if you're playing the same character over that span of time, in which you're changing personally, your personal changes are going to affect the character as you play them." "So that's been interesting, because it is a challenge to try to get yourself back to the person you were a year ago, two years ago even. And so at first I felt a lot of stress and tension, and a lot of stress and pressure about that, and then I realized that nobody else seemed to be worried about it, so I was just going to let it go." While Ricci was cautious to not reveal too much about what's coming up on Yellowjackets, including after being asked about the future of Misty and Walter's relationship, she highlighted how "isolated" the character is this season. "Misty is isolated from everybody this season, even when she's with them, [she is feeling really] circumspect about everybody in her life," Ricci said. "And at a certain point, you kind of figure out what conclusion she's come to, but it's not obvious for a very long time."
Buzz Feed
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
You And A Mate Could Be Eating Each Other's Heart Out At This 11-Course 'Yellowjackets" Degustation
Yellowjackets is back for Season 3 and it's safe to say, we're pretty darn excited! And we're not the only ones — From March 4-7, fans and foodies can delight in an 11-course experience that's enticingly named "Eat Your Heart Out" — which, knowing Yellowjackets, could honestly mean anything...👀 Paramount+ Chef Nelly Robinson has teamed up with Paramount+ to celebrate the new drop with a menu inspired by the show. No stranger to pushing culinary boundaries, he relished the challenge. "Getting to ask the questions of 'how do we make an ear appetising?' Or 'how can we get someone to dig into a brain?' was a very exciting quest.' he teases. "While it might not be visually 'conventionally appetising' — the flavours and aesthetics will most definitely leave you speechless." Let's be real though, if we had to take a ~stab~ in the dark? The meal is probably going to involve an edible forest of sorts or perhaps an ear. Mmmmm, delicious... Paramount+ Think you've got the stomach for it? To celebrate Yellowjackets Season 3, Paramount+ Australia and NEL Restaurant are giving you and a friend the chance to experience the ultimate survival-inspired feast. Paramount+ Dinner and immersive experiences that replicate your favourite show? As if you'd want to miss this. Head to the NEL website before February 26 to enter. Paramount+
