When Melanie Lynskey read the pilot script for Yellowjackets, she knew she needed to be part of the series, despite the fact that she’s typically “nervous” about signing on to long-term TV contracts.“You read a lot of things that are different for the sake of being different or edgy, [but] there was a genuine edge to this.
It was so female-centered and everyone was so well drawn,” she said during one of the Showtime series’ panels today at TCA. “I loved how the show really got to the heart of female relationships.
It was really complicated and grounded in something I believed in, in my heart.”Juliette Lewis was similarly compelled, noting that the script she received was one of the best she’d read in the last 10-plus years. “It was
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