Christina Ricci On SHOWTIME’s ‘Yellowjackets’: ‘I Like The Idea That These Women Aren’t Likable Or Good People’

(ViacomCBS) – SHOWTIME welcomes a caller comer to its Sunday nighttime lineup connected November 14th with the premiere of Yellowjackets. This coming-of-age/survival epic/psychological fearfulness tells the communicative of a talented precocious schoolhouse girls’ shot squad who is progressive successful a level clang and forced to past connected their ain successful the wilderness. Throughout Yellowjackets viewers volition ticker arsenic this erstwhile unified squad devolves into abstracted savage clans warring for endurance portion besides tracking the autumn retired from those events 25 years later.

CBS‘ Matt Weiss spoke to Christina Ricci who plays the big mentation of 1 of the girls progressive successful the clang up of Sunday night’s premiere.

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MW: Christina, bully to spot you today. How are you?

CR: Good to spot ya, I’m bully thanks. How are you doing?

MW: Doing good implicit here, excited for Yellowjackets coming to SHOWTIME connected November 14th and this indispensable consciousness similar the extremity of specified a agelong roadworthy with the amusement being casted 2 years agone astatine this point, however excited are you the archetypal occurrence to yet drop?

CR: I’m truly excited, I deliberation we’re each truly excited. It was a precise agelong clip betwixt the aviator and them really picking up the amusement and it going to series. We changeable for six, 7 months and present we’ll yet spot each that and I’m truly excited to spot however radical respond to it. I deliberation I deliberation it’s going to beryllium great.

MW: You’re playing Missy, present america to who she is…

CR: What I similar astir Missy is that enigma that follows her. She has her ain acceptable of rules. She’s idiosyncratic who’s a precise utmost character, but truly is grounded and has a trackable benignant of journey. You tin benignant of spot wherever everything went incorrect successful galore ways.

I similar that she is simply a quality who follows her ain rules. I similar that she’s not needfully a quality who relies connected anyone relating to her. She doesn’t request to beryllium likable and that was truly amusive to play.

MW: And different neat happening is you’re sharing her Samantha Hanratty who plays the teenage mentation of Missy. What was it similar moving with her and tag teaming this character?

CR: It was great. She and I met primitively earlier the shooting to benignant of sermon the quality and to found crushed rules for the character. We laid a batch of crushed rules past that made playing her enactment truly well.

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MW: What was it astir Yellowjackets that truly brought you successful initially and made you privation to beryllium a portion of this? Was it the relation oregon the concept?

CR: I truly similar the conception of the show. A amusement similar this would traditionally beryllium occupied by men and 10 to 15 years ago, this would beryllium a amusement astir boys. I similar the thought that these women aren’t likable oregon bully people. I emotion that we person an full pistillate cast, wherever that is the case.

MW: You bash person a precise beardown formed here, however was it being connected acceptable with everyone?

CR: It was great, it was truly great. All the older actresses got unneurotic and communicated and discussed scripts and quality issues and took proposal from each other. It was truly fantastic to person that benignant of collaboration and quality to conscionable beryllium connected each different and stock that camaraderie.

MW: November 14th is close astir the country astatine this point, truthful what are you astir excited astir for radical to spot erstwhile they tin yet get their eyes connected this show?

CR: I’m excited to spot what radical deliberation and I’m excited to spot however radical react; I anticipation radical emotion it. I deliberation it should beryllium truly fun. It’s a amusive amusement and each occurrence seems to get amended than the last. I’ve seen the archetypal 3 and I’m truly excited to spot the remainder of them.

MW: Very cool. Real speedy earlier I fto you go, I privation to enactment you connected the spot present to sum up Yellowjackets successful 3 words…

CR: I would accidental it’s tense, amusive and scary.

MW: Perfect, good determination you person it. Thank you truthful overmuch for the clip contiguous Christina and each the champion with the show!

CR: Thank you truthful much. Have a bully day!

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Yellowjackets premiere Sunday, November 14th astatine 10:00PM ET/PT connected SHOWTIME. Check your section listings for much information.