Ella Purnell didn’t fairly have the urge for food to look at one among 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 useless physique on the present following her demise 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 current 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 possibly studying them as rapidly as I ought to have been, as a result of I had lots happening.”
Purnell added, “And I simply awakened one morning, and I had all these footage from my Yellowjackets castmates of them taking selfies with my charred corpse. You realize 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 awakened and I used to be like, ‘Am I useless? What’s occurred?’ So, it was a bit of bit disconcerting.”
After Jackie is exiled by her teammates in ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’, the finale of Season 1, she freezes to demise when it unexpectedly snows in a single day. Because the group begins to starve, they resort to consuming Jackie within the Season 2 episode ‘Edible Advanced’.
“I’m gonna inform you a secret: I really 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 wish to threat it, so I haven’t seen it.”
Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets follows a New Jersey highschool women’ soccer group that turns into stranded within the Canadian wilderness for 19 months when their airplane crashes in 1996. In the meantime, their grownup counterparts battle to bury the secrets and techniques of what they went by.
After filming kicked off for Season 3 in Might, the collection is anticipated to return in 2025.
