‘Yellowjackets’ Creators, Melanie Lynskey, Tawney Cypress Celebrate “F*cked Up Women” – Contenders TV
deadline.comShowtime’s hit drama Yellowjackets is a multi-generational story that touches on hints of cannibalism and the supernatural. For co-creator Ashley Lyle, it’s a universal tale of flawed women.
The show tells parallel stories about a high school soccer team surviving after a plane crash in 1996, and the survivors as adults in the present.“Our goal was to take this high concept that would suck people in and use it to disguise our story about f***ed up women,” Lyle said on a Deadline Contenders panel on Saturday at Paramount Studios.As grown-up survivor Shauna, Melanie Lynskey said we’ve only seen the beginning of her character’s unraveling.
Shauna embarked on an affair and killed a rabbit in Season 1. Lynskey also said she was ready to take a break after having a baby but Yellowjackets was too good to pass up.“I love that I’m playing someone who on the surface is an ordinary housewife, and then goes in so many directions,” Lynskey said. “There’s still so much further to go.
I feel like the first strand of wool has been pulled out on Shauna and there’s so much more to do.”Tawny Cypress plays grown-up Taissa who is now a political candidate.
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