SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Yellowjackets, Season 3 episode ’12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis’
The ghost of besties past has come back for a much-welcome haunting on Yellowjackets.
While discussing Season 3 of the hit Showtime series, Melanie Lynskey raved to Deadline about reuniting with co-star Ella Purnell in this week’s episode ’12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis’ and watching the presidential election together in November.
“It was really fun. She and I had a lot of stuff in an earlier season,” she noted. “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.”
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Lynskey added, “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.”
Purnell’s return to Yellowjackets comes after a busy year for the actress, who starred in Prime Video’s Fallout series adaptation, as well as the Sky and Starz series Sweetpea.
Although her character Jackie froze to death in the Season 1 finale before becoming her teammates’ barbecue, Purnell reprised the role to haunt the adult version of her best friend Shauna (Lynskey) while she’s appropriately trapped in a walk-in freezer.
Jackie also returned in last week’s episode during teen Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), Van (Liv Hewson) and Akilah’s (Nia Sondoya) trippy shared cave hallucination.
“It was very fun to reunite with Ella. I got to see her last season, and hopefully she’s back in Season 4,” said Nélisse.
“It’s always like a little treat, because we had such a beautiful time shooting the first season, and it was so devastating losing her,” she added. “So, I’m always thrilled whenever I see a scene and Ella’s written it, I text her immediately, and I’m like, ‘Please come back as soon as possible so we can go hang in Vancouver.’”
This week’s episode of Yellowjackets is now available to stream on Paramount+ with Showtime, before airing Sunday at 8pm ET on Showtime.
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