If she were stranded alone in the desert, Christine Ricci feels she would know what to do.
“Personally, I’m a big fan of survival TV,” she says, “I know how to do pull-ups, because I know that if you fall off a cliff, you have to throw the weight off your body to get rid of it. “, in fact, I would do very well,” he says with a faint laugh.
You might not want precisely that wisdom for your new show, because it’s a scripted series, but it’s about survival.
Ricci and a series of actresses star in Yellowjackets, a drama about a football team of the best women in the school that a plane crashes in the wild. The series tells the story of their descent from a prosperous team to a cannibal clan, while following them years later. as they retire to advance in their lives.
Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress and Ricci describe teammates as adults, while Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Ella Purnell play with teammates in their youth.
Lynskey says she was drawn to the task because, “Honestly, I was so excited to read something so different. There were genuine advantages to that, and I enjoyed [that] it was so aimed at women; history has entered the center of women’s relationships.
Lewis agrees, adding, “This script was one of the most productive I’ve read in the last ten years. It was surely desirable on the page, which is very rare. And I’m interested in dichotomies or contrasts and all those disorders. “to many degrees within a human being.
For Nélisse, his interest is greater through the excessive situations put to the test in the series. “I think we’ve all imagined what it would be like to face a life-and-death situation. It brings out the worst in us, so far. ” also the most productive in us. We all think we know others, until we put ourselves in this situation. [So], just to see how far those women will go is very interesting. “
Playing the same character, Lewis and Thatcher were exclusively hooked, Lewis explains. “Sophie and I just played music. We exchanged old music, it’s fun.
“Music was a vital thing for me, because I think it’s vital for her,” says Thatcher. He also recalled, “One of our first phone calls about how [Juliette] talked about how [our character] dresses is very important. they were on the same path.
Lynskey admits that working with his younger counterparts is inspiring: “to see them and how talented they are, and to see other people who are so enthusiastic and whose voices are so strong. “
In crafting the narrative, author/executive maker/presenter Ashley Lyle said, “We knew we didn’t need to show what happened, but why it happened. And what appealed to us about having a championship football team is that it’s about collaboration.
She adds: “Spoiler alert: [It’s not] a football show. It’s about how those women were able to paint in combination as a group, and then see how they can start to pull over and break apart over the course of a season. “
Director Karyn Kusama gave her take on the series, saying it “has a broader theme. “
She explains the procedure of her idea with: “Going from barrels and car sharing and winning a football game in high school, to something so extreme, raises the question of ‘What are other people capable of?’So, it creates this internal suspense and an internal set of queries that drive the total series.
With that in mind, Kusama believes that what the Yellowjackets are exploring is rarely just a matter of survival, it’s “the mysteries of human behavior. “
‘Yellowjackets’ airs Sundays at 10p on Showtime and must air on Showtime. com.