‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 Casts Lauren Ambrose as Adult Van
variety.comKate Aurthur editorLauren Ambrose has been cast in the second season of the Emmy-nominated drama “Yellowjackets,” Showtime announced on Thursday. “Yellowjackets” will begin production on Season 2 later this month in Vancouver, and Ambrose is set to play the adult version of Van, who’s portrayed as a teenager by Liv Hewson.
The company simultaneously announced that Hewson has been promoted to be a series regular in the show’s second season.The casting of Ambrose answered a question the “Yellowjackets” fandom has had about whether Van had made it home alive. “Yellowjackets” follows the aftermath of a New Jersey high-school girls’ soccer team whose plane crash left them stranded in the wilderness, where they create their own society (and seemingly turn to cannibalism) before being rescued 19 months later.
The show unfolds in two timelines: the stranded girls who survived the crash in 1996, and their adult selves 25 years later.
In Season 1, those adults were played by Emmy nominees Melanie Lynskey (Shauna) and Christina Ricci (Misty), plus Juliette Lewis (Natalie) and Tawny Cypress (Taissa).
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