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Sophie Nelisse on The Yellow Jackets Season 2, Young Shauna and Eating Jackie’s Ear

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Sophie Nelisse insists that holding Jackie’s ear was an accident. 23-year-old Canadian actress who played Shauna Shipman in her youth. yellow jacketswas the first, but not the last! – confirming that Yesthey are going to eat people in this show. The season two premiere ends with Shauna biting her dead best friend’s ear after all.

“We filmed the scene. I put it back in my pocket,” Neliss confesses to me via Zoom. “Then, a few months later, I was rummaging through my pocket and thought: What is this strange soft thing? Oh my god it’s an earIt’s obviously not a real ear – the props team made the appetizer out of flexible silicone. Neliss, of course, kept it. “I hid it in my room. If someone walked into my room and I had a whole little ear on the tabletop, it would be something like a red flag. So, it is hidden in a small souvenir box,” adds Nelisse.

Eating ears is far from the wildest thing yellow jackets the film crew gets up in the second season – the rest of poor Jackie goes the way of the ear in the very next episode – and Neliss hints that their diets won’t be back to normal anytime soon. “Over time in the series, you will see that other foods that we eat are actually made from gummy bears,” she says. “They’re actually so delicious, but they look so real and sticky and disgusting that our brains can’t really separate and detach from them. It is disgusting to eat, although in fact it is quite tasty. It’s literally a giant chewing gum. bear.”

“The stakes are much higher,” Sophie Nelisse says of yellow jackets Second season. “I was very excited that we were using more desperate, more animalistic behavior.

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If only food was the sole concern of an abandoned football team. Now, in the middle of the season, we’re watching the girls struggle to make sense of the strange environment they’re stuck in – the icy isolation of a forest winter that strains friendships and encourages strange beliefs. Shauna also goes through the misfortune of being pregnant in the desert with her dead best friend’s ex-boyfriend’s child, which Neliss was particularly excited to explore in the new season.

“The stakes are much higher,” she says. “I was very happy that we would tap into more desperate, more animalistic behavior. Part of her has grown to love this baby and she wants it, but at the same time it’s a constant reminder of all the things she’s done that she regrets. : Slept with Jeff, which also led to Jackie’s death. At the end of the second episode, by eating Jackie, she ended the story. But pregnancy is a constant reminder. It’s a reason to try and survive and try to survive. get out of the wilderness, because she has not only her[self] to think about. It brings out this very selfless side in her, but she fears for her life because she is likely to die.”

In the fifth episode, “Two Truths and a Lie”, Shauna feels trapped not only by her physical condition, but by the growing number of those who are starting to look like a cult – with a resisting (and possibly clairvoyant) Lottie Matthews at the helm. . She is utterly terrified of their little meditation sessions in the woods and cannot shake their constant interest in her unborn child. “She understands where they come from, as you need to hold on to something to survive,” Neliss explains. “Her hope is only this child, and she does not want anything to be associated with him. The journey Lottie is taking scares her because she sees them losing touch with reality. I don’t think she wants to take the risk.” it by believing it.”

She returned to the Shona she was before desert.

“She’s already so mad at herself for everything she’s done that I don’t even think she can be held accountable anymore,” Neliss continues. “She definitely projects a lot of her anger and takes it out on other people because it’s too hard for her. As the season progresses, she feels very alienated because she is so angry with herself. group because they didn’t believe in the cause.”

Fighting off a witch cult alone is a dangerous business, but fortunately we know that Shauna is one of the survivors, and Melanie Lynskey plays her adult counterpart in the present. Neliss explains that both actors tried not to copy each other’s performances too much, and also created a logical path through a period of her life that we don’t see, from one Shauna to the next. While other characters have matured or evolved into new, different versions of themselves as adults, Shauna has taken the opposite path.

“She is back to being the Shauna she was. before wilderness,” Neliss says. “In my storyline, we see Shauna grow into who she is, find her inner strength without all these social norms and hierarchies. Without Jackie, she is finally, in some strange, confusing way, truly free within herself. But because she has done such terrible things, she is afraid of this man. She turned back into the Showna she used to be, turning into the person that other people want her to be. She reconnected with Jeff and settled into a family she didn’t really want. Ironically, Shauna years later is a more dormant, locked-in version of herself. We see her act because she wants to find the voice she found in the desert.”

“Everyone who watches the show can have their own interpretation, depending on how rational they are about their lives and what they want to believe,” says Nelisse of yellow jackets.

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And what is that voice? All the survivors have been torn out of their happy lives in the suburbs and seem to be coming together for some unknown purpose, driven by some unknown force. Natalie and Misty are looking for Lottie’s wellness center. Thaissa’s possible split personality led her straight to Van. Shauna and Jeff are still trying to cover up the murder, but it’s likely only a matter of time before Shauna feels the call. yellow jackets never waves his hand to one side or the other, inviting his audience to interpret events for themselves—as the characters do—either as the product of supernatural power or as something more mundane.

“He appeals to a very wide audience,” Neliss says. “I watch him come out every week with my family. We watched the third episode last night and that’s what my brother and his wife were saying – they play such a fine line. As a society, we have so many different beliefs. … I have many friends who are into crystals and astrology and all that. Everyone who watches the show can have their own interpretation, depending on how rational they are in their lives and what they want to believe.”

Nowhere is this more evident than in one of the final tragic scenes of the first season, when Shauna and Jackie seem to share the latter’s dying vision of being invited back to the cabin from the cold, only to die terrified by the darkness. , ghostly presence. The scene transitions from Jackie’s dream to Shauna waking up, as if she knows exactly what happened. It goes down in a way that seems to suggest many different conclusions.

“I see this as a premature dream,” Nelisse says when I ask her what her interpretation was. “When you kind of know something is going to happen, you daydream about it or your instincts just kick in. It could be Shauna’s inner feeling of what’s to come, that Jackie is dying. This is probably the last thing she sees before she dies. and also what Shauna would like for everyone to say: “We love you Jackie and everything will be fine.” Sorry you are watching yellow jackets— and nothing will be good. These girls are in for a ride. We haven’t left the forest yet. at all.”

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Emma Stefansky is a culture and entertainment writer based in New York City. Her work can be found on Vanity Fair, GQ and The Daily Beast, among others.

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By the deadline, I don’t agree with this screenwriter Christy Hall is adapting the script for the screen. Meanwhile, Baldoni has a triple duty: in addition to casting and directing, he will also be an executive producer alongside Lively and Hoover. V It ends with us The film is currently in development with Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures. According to Hoover, the original book is “kind of inspired” by her mom, who “got us out of a scary situation” when she was little. Accordingly, Hoover returned to her childhood home to film her casting announcement. “The little girl who used to sleep in this bedroom thanks you for all the support,” she said.

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Alec Baldwin to be acquitted of film charges

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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Prosecutors on Thursday said they would dismiss a manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 murder of a cameraman on the set of the Western ‘Rust’, but warned that their investigation was not yet complete and the actor was not yet complete.

Special prosecutors Kari Morrisey and Jason Lewis announced their decision to drop the felony charge after “new facts came to light that warranted further investigation and forensic analysis,” without giving details. The manslaughter charge against Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who is responsible for the guns in the film, remains unchanged, they said.

“We cannot act under the current time constraints and based on the facts and evidence provided by law enforcement,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “This decision does not remove Mr. Baldwin’s criminal responsibility, and the charges may be re-indicted. Our follow-up investigation will continue.”

Baldwin’s lawyers were the first to announce that prosecutors were changing course, a dramatic turnaround for the Hollywood luminary, who just months ago faced a multi-year prison sentence.

“We are pleased with the decision to close the case against Alec Baldwin and call for a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident,” defense attorneys Luc Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement.

When the news of his dismissal arrived, Baldwin was at the Yellowstone Movie Ranch filming the Rust reboot. Pre-production was underway Thursday at a new location in Montana, 18 months after filming halted cinematographer Halina Hutchins, Rust Movie Productions said.

Baldwin pointed a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal when he fired, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Sousa.

Baldwin said the gun went off by accident and he didn’t pull the trigger. However, the FBI’s forensic report showed that the weapon could not have been fired if the trigger had not been pulled.

John Day, a Santa Fe criminal defense attorney who is not involved in the Rust case, highlighted the arrival of a new prosecution team in late March and suggested that this may have been a factor in the decision to drop the charges.

“This is very different from what the original prosecutor said,” he said. “It does raise the question that the Santa Fe District Attorney originally said, ‘We hold Alec Baldwin liable in part because of the role of the CEO of the production and (that) it was a very sloppy proceeding’ – does this mean that the new prosecutors different point of view?

Lawyers for Gutierrez-Rid said they fully expect her to be acquitted in court.

“The truth about what happened will come out, and we will get answers to questions that we have been looking for answers for a long time,” lawyers Jason Bowles and Todd Bullion said in a statement.

The case against Baldwin was already on the wane. The weapons charge, which meant a much longer sentence, was dropped and the first special prosecutor appointed in the case resigned.

The 40-year career as a top-notch actor includes early blockbuster The Hunt for Red October and a starring role in the sitcom Studio 30, as well as iconic appearances in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and the film adaptation of the novel. Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. In recent years, he has been known for his impression of former President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

After the execution, the 65-year-old man did little work, but was hardly hiding. He remained active on social media, making videos on Instagram and posting interviews and photos of his wife and seven children on podcasts.

Rust security coordinator and assistant director David Halls dropped out of his appeal for unsafe firearms in March and was given a six-month suspended sentence.

Plans to resume filming were laid out last year by cinematographer Matthew Hutchins’ widower in a proposed wrongful death lawsuit settlement that would make him an executive producer. Souza said he would return to directing Rust to honor the legacy of Galina Hutchins.

Despite the settlement, lawyers for the Hutchins family said they welcomed the criminal charges against Baldwin when they were filed. They had no immediate comment on Thursday’s upcoming layoffs.

After a scathing safety review by New Mexico regulators detailing ignored complaints and misfires before Hutchins’ death in October 2021, the production company agreed to pay a $100,000 fine.

Baldwin did not travel to New Mexico to appear in court, which is not required of him by state law. Evidence hearings have been scheduled for the following month to determine whether to proceed to trial.

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Oltwis has previously said her office is seeking justice for Hutchins’ death and wants to show that no one is above the law when it comes to firearms and public safety. She says the death of the Ukrainian filmmaker was tragic and could have been prevented.

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Dalton reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press contributor Susan Montoya Bryan of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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