Hilary Swank Joins The Cast of YELLOWJACKETS Season 3
Paramount+ and Showtime‘s Yellowjeckets series has added Hilary Swank to the cast of its upcoming Season 3. She will be a recurring guest star on the series, which is currently filming in Vancouver.
Details regarding Swank’s character have not been revealed, but there is an option for her to become a series regular should the series get a fourth season.
Yellowjackets is the saga of “a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.
“The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over.”
Yellowjackets director and producer Karyn Kusama previously teased what’s coming, saying: "I've been so excited by this. The concept of that immediate aftermath of re-entry into the world, to me, there's a whole season worth of material there.
“And the fact that this is such a long game that each of these characters is facing, in terms of reorienting themselves to whatever normalcy is supposed to be. I'm sure we're going to learn that their normal is a lot different than our normal… There's a lot that needs to be figured out between Season 2 and Season 3."
Lyle previously revealed that they have a five-season plan, and they are on track to deliver the full story they wanted to tell. When talking about the full plan that they initially pitched, they explained why they feel five seasons is the right stopping point.
Lyle said: "The original plan was about five seasons, and we feel like we're still on track for that. There's always room for things. We don't really see this as being more than a five-season show.
“I think that there are shows that can go forever, but I think that when you're telling such a deeply serialized story and it's about these characters' lives, you want to reach a satisfying conclusion and not just drag things out forever.
“This isn't really one of those setup shows where it can go anywhere. So far, we've been really on track. Season 2 is largely what we always planned, but you do make a lot of discoveries along the way and so it's always a little bit surprising."
Swank joins Melanie Lynskey, Sophie Nélisse, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Samantha Hanratty, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Courtney Eaton, Lauren Ambrose, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, and Kevin Alves. Joel McHale also recently joined the cast.
Season 3 was delayed by the strikes, but it will premiere on Showtime next year.