Ella Purnell didn’t fairly have the urge for food to observe certainly one of her onscreen characters go.
After starring within the first season of Showtime‘s Yellowjackets, the actress lately opened up in regards to the “disconcerting” expertise of seeing her character Jackie’s lifeless physique on the present following her loss of life on the finish of the Season 1 finale.
“Yeah, it was bizarre. I knew it was gonna occur, I sort of put two and two collectively,” she famous at a latest Fan Expo in Chicago. “However I used to be filming Fallout, and the schedule was very, very demanding. I used to be exhausted. And I used to be getting the scripts for Season 2 [of Yellowjackets] however I wasn’t perhaps studying them as rapidly as I ought to have been, as a result of I had loads happening.”
Purnell added, “And I simply wakened one morning, and I had all these footage from my Yellowjackets castmates of them taking selfies with my charred corpse. You recognize once you get up and also you don’t know the place you’re? It was like that however on steroids, as a result of I wakened and I used to be like, ‘Am I lifeless? What’s occurred?’ So, it was just a little bit disconcerting.”
After Jackie is exiled by her teammates in ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’, the finale of Season 1, she freezes to loss of life when it unexpectedly snows in a single day. Because the workforce begins to starve, they resort to consuming Jackie within the Season 2 episode ‘Edible Complicated’.
“I’m gonna let you know a secret: I truly haven’t watched that episode as a result of I don’t know what it’s gonna do to my psychological well being,” admitted Purnell. “I don’t actually need to danger it, so I haven’t seen it.”
Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets follows a New Jersey highschool women’ soccer workforce that turns into stranded within the Canadian wilderness for 19 months when their aircraft crashes in 1996. In the meantime, their grownup counterparts battle to bury the secrets and techniques of what they went via.
After filming kicked off for Season 3 in Could, the sequence is predicted to return in 2025.
