Yellowjackets Season 3’s Major Character Return Gets Heartfelt Reaction From Star

Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Yellowjackets season 3, episode 4!

With the past still looming large over the main characters, Melanie Lynskey shares her thoughts on a major Yellowjackets season 3 return tied to the show’s past timeline. The Showtime thriller series follows a group of plane crash survivors both throughout their ordeal stranded in the Canadian wilderness, and their later lives when their past comes back to haunt them. In the show, Lynskey portrays Shauna Shipman, who found herself reconnecting with her fellow survivors when a blackmailer emerges and attempts to threaten to expose the truth.

As Yellowjackets season 3 saw Ella Purnell’s Jackie Taylor return to haunt the older Shauna, Lynskey stated to Deadline that she was glad to work alongside Purnell once more. Lynskey praised Purnell as both an actor and as a friend, including recalling a unique experience they enjoyed together off the set of the show. Check out Lynskey’s full explanation below:

It was really fun. She and I had a lot of stuff in an earlier season. I guess in Season 1, she was haunting me a lot. Then I think she was too busy to haunt in Season 2. So, it was nice to have her back again. She’s so wonderful. She’s such a good actor, and she’s a very cool person. I was at her house on election night, and it was a great place to be. It was really fun just to kind of try to forget about it all.

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Source: Deadline

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November 14, 2021

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Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime

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Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan Lisco

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Benjamin Semanoff, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Deepa Mehta, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Liz Garbus, Scott Winant, Eva Sørhaug, Jamie Travis

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Liz Phang, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa