How ‘Yellowjackets’ ’90s Cast Compares to Their Present Day Counterparts: Melanie Lynskey, Sophie Nelisse and More

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Like looking in a mirror! Yellowjackets follows a group of survivors — in the past and present — after a plane crash leaves them stranded in the Canadian wilderness.The critically-acclaimed Showtime series, which debuted in November 2021, goes back and forth between the teenage girls who have to figure out a way to survive in 1996 and the aftermath of their return two decades later in 2021.Actors including Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress, Sammi Hanratty and Christina Ricci and Sophie Thatcher and Juliette Lewis were paired off to deliver their respective takes on their shared character.At the time, Ricci broke down her approach to playing the adult version of Misty, telling Interview Magazine in November 2021, “It made me angrier.

I know we talked about how we were going to play Misty differently — I would use a lot of passive aggression, and you would channel the rage that comes from 40 years of being dismissed.”Hanratty, for her part, praised the collaboration between her and the Wednesday star. “I’m just lucky that I got to work with you.

You have the empathy and compassion needed to play a character like this — you’re not judging her,” she said to her costar in the joint interview.Ricci later discussed how she found a way to be creative after taking on the role of Misty.“It’s really different with television because it’s not the same as with film where basically a character’s written, and then the character’s kind of handed over to you as the actor.

You kind of get to create whoever you really want within the parameters of the writing,” the Addams Family star exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2022. “What I’m looking at is — is the character something I haven’t seen before?