Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis Join the Cast of YELLOWJACKETS at Showtime

TV Yellowjackets Christina Ricci Juliette Lewis Melanie Lynskey Tawny Cypress Jasmin Savoy Brown Ella Purnell Sammi Hanratty Sophie Thatcher Sophie Nelisse Steven Krueger Amy Okuda Showtime Image Safe about 5 years agoby Jessica Fisher

Christina Ricci (Now and Then, Black Snake Moan) and Juliette Lewis (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Camping) have signed on to join the cast of the upcoming Showtime series Yellowjackets. The show will tell the shocking story of a team of girls whose lives are shaped by a plane crash. Variety provides the full synopsis:

Yellowjackets tells the story of a team of talented high school girls soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while at the same time tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

Ricci and Lewis join the already cast Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness, Castle Rock), Tawny Cypress (Unforgettable), Jasmin Savoy Brown (The Leftovers), Ella Purnell (Sweetbitter), Sammi Hanratty (Shameless), Sophie Thatcher (The Tomorrow Man), Sophie Nelisse (47 Meters Down: Uncaged), Steven Krueger (The Originals), and Amy Okuda (Atypical).

The report also provides the following character descriptions:

Lewis and Thatcher will star as adult and teen versions of the same character Natalie, whose punk rock spirit and habit of finding trouble make her the unlikeliest member of the team. Ricci and Hanratty will play adult and teen versions of Misty, the Yellowjackets’ equipment manager.
Purnell will play Jackie, the Yellowjackets’ magnetically charismatic, effortlessly popular, occasionally entitled team captain. Nelisse will play Lynskey’s counterpart as the teen version of Shauna Sheridan. Krueger joins the cast as Ben Scott, the assistant coach and the object of many an unrequited crush. And finally Okuda will play Cat Wheeler, a history teacher recruited to bolster the female presence on the coaching staff, despite knowing literally nothing about soccer.

This sounds like a bizarre and fascinating series, and I’m totally stoked to check it out! Are you interested in the series Yellowjackets?

Jessica Fisher

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