‘Yellowjackets’ Star Reveals Death Scene Was “Initial Plan” & Recalls Laying “Naked On A Table” In Final Episode: “I Knew From The Beginning”

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SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Yellowjackets, Season 3 episode ‘Thanksgiving (Canada)’ Yellowjackets audiences are feasting this week after the Showtime series delivered a death scene that’s been brewing since the beginning.

Following the ups and downs of a trial in which the titular stranded soccer team found Steven Krueger‘s Coach Ben Scott guilty of burning down their cabin, the actor and the show’s creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson spoke to Deadline about finally sealing the character’s fate in this week’s episode ‘Thanksgiving (Canada)’, now available to steam on Paramount+ with Showtime, before airing Sunday at 8pm ET on Showtime. “I knew from the beginning, just from being close with Ashley and Bart when this started,” noted Krueger. “They had essentially told me that the initial plan was for Coach Ben to meet his end at some point in Season 3.” Nickerson admitted the latest death was a particular “bummer” as Coach Ben has been with the show from the pilot, and dying in the ’90s means we won’t get to see a present-day counterpart for the character. “Man, it’s always hard,” added Lyle. “I don’t think that fans and viewers totally appreciate just how intense the working relationship is, and particularly with Coach, just because we’ve known Steven Krueger for so long,” she continued. “We worked together on our very first episode of television we ever made, back in the Originals days, and he’s the best.

We just love him so much, we will put him in any show we ever make. “And so it really hurt for us. I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’ve lost one of my best friends in Vancouver when I’m up there.’ We really ran the thought experiment in the writers room, like, ‘Is there any way to not kill him?