Misty Quigley: Last News

At 15, Christina Ricci appeared in a PG-13 comedy called Now and Then, in which four middle-aged best friends meet up to reflect on their teenage selves. Nearly 30 years later, Showtime’s Yellowjackets is that film’s hard-R evil twin, in which the fortysomething members of a New Jersey school’s female football team are haunted by memories of a traumatic plane crash that left them stranded when they were kids. It’s hard to pick a single performance from a terrific ensemble, but Ricci’s portrayal of the twisted Misty Quigley, played in flashback by Sammi Hanratty, is a standout in a series that shocks and surprises.

Warning: Spoilers for “Yellowjackets” season 2, episode five, “Two Truths and a Lie,” directed by Ben Semanoff and written by Katherine Kearns & Sarah L. Thompson. 

When it comes to describing young Misty Quigley, the overly zealous equipment manager on the high school soccer team, Samantha Hanratty says that «a lot of her stuff is extra.» The 27-year-old breakout star adds, «She can be a very heightened human.» And what goes down at the halfway point of  season 2 is an example of just that, with Hanratty revealing she was «quite giddy» when she read the script for «Two Truths and a Lie,» aware of where things were headed for Misty since the beginning of the season. During episode five, things are starting to get even more desperate for the young survivors in the past timeline. While the girls fight over what to do with Javi (Luciano Leroux), who was miraculously found at the end of the last episode and has since refused to open up about what happened to him, and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) becomes more distraught over the impending birth of her baby, Misty finds herself caught up in a whole new problem after revealing a long-held secret about the plane crash.After Misty and her new bestie, Crystal (Nuha Jes Izman), are forced to empty the bathroom buckets, the two start confiding in each other about various secrets from their past.

Charna Flam Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from “Digestif,” the third episode of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, now streaming on Showtime. From destroying the team’s only way out of the wilderness in the past to conducting citizen detective investigations in the present, Misty Quigley’s ambitions are always an attempt to further her relationships — switching from being a misfit, and an unknowing laughingstock — and to become a vital member of the soccer team at the center of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” As played by actor Samantha Hanratty, in “Digestif,” teenage Misty outdoes even her Season 1 antics, with one particularly eccentric breakout moment. While the girls grapple with their latest decision, to feast on their late teammate Jackie, they prepare for the birth of Shauna’s (Sophie Nélisse) baby.

Christina Ricci looked nothing short of sensational as she graced the latest cover of Variety, after landing an Emmy nomination for her role on Yellowjackets.While rocking a brown and black checkerboard dress, the 42-year-old actress oozed glamour with her straight brunette locks cascading down her shoulders and a pair of diamond drop earrings.The actress, best known for starring as Wednesday in The Addams Family when she was just 11, also seized the chance to shed light on what attracted her to play Misty Quigley on Showtime's suspenseful psychological thriller. Radiant: Christina Ricci looked nothing short of sensational as she graced the latest cover of Variety, after landing an Emmy nomination for her role on YellowjacketsThe mom-of-two, who has a gravitated toward portraying unusual characters with a dark edge over her three-decade-long career, revealed she finds it 'really interesting' getting to 'play a whole human being and get to explore a person that's capable of that.'  She also joked that there's 'probably a clinical diagnosis for' her character, who is a plane crash survivor that goes on to commit murder, but is 'not educated enough to make it.' 'I don't believe that you need to relate to a person to find it interesting.