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.DEADLINE: Why did you want to want to do Yellowjackets?CHRISTINA RICCI: I loved the idea of it — the premise in general.
But then I read the pilot script and the only scene I had in the whole episode was such an incredibly well written, succinct, informative, evocative scene.
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