Ella Purnell On SHOWTIME’s ‘Yellowjackets’: ‘Going To Be Dark, Going To Be Twisted’

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(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 Ella Purnell who plays the teen mentation of Jackie, the Yellowjackets fashionable skipper up of Sunday night’s premiere.

MW: Ella, bully to spot you today, Yellowjackets is coming to SHOWTIME this Sunday, November 14th astatine 10pm. I’m seeing a batch of hype astir this amusement and the trailer is electrical but I’m funny from your perspective, what made you privation to beryllium a portion of the show?

EP: For me, it was a nary brainer. I knew it was going to beryllium dark, I knew it was going to beryllium twisted. I’ve been truly trying to play with antithetic genres and astatine that clip I truly wanted to bash thing gory and gritty and research the edges of my acting parameters. This amusement decidedly does each that.

MW: And present you’ve had to hold each this clip to enactment it retired aft being casted astir 2 years ago. How bully does it consciousness that it’s yet astir here?

EP: It’s crazy. Here’s however it went; we changeable the pilot, we took similar a twelvemonth and a fractional disconnected successful COVID and past we went to Canada and changeable the full play successful six months. We were successful this ace aggravated immersive bubble. We wrapped 3 weeks agone and present I’m doing a property junket. It’s been crazy.

MW: So you’re from England and you had to spell to Canada to play an American.

EP: [Laughs] Yea, I conjecture I did.

MW: And your character’s sanction is Jackie truthful wherefore don’t you present america to who she is…

EP: Yeah, truthful I play Jackie Taylor, she is the skipper of the shot squad who was besides the stereotypical benignant of Queen Bee, fashionable girl. However you privation to deliberation of it, she has it all. She has the privilege arsenic a precise rich, benignant of precocious people background. She has the boyfriend, she has the height, she’s gotten assemblage acceptance letters and her assemblage plan.

She has it each figured retired until they get thrown into the wilderness wherever her satellite conscionable wholly crumbles and falls apart. She loses each of her footing due to the fact that erstwhile you instrumentality distant the societal constructs and the hierarchy that exists successful precocious school, which we each cognize is simply a bubble, and you propulsion them into the wilderness she doesn’t cognize however to be.

She doesn’t cognize however to summation respect, she doesn’t cognize however to person power and powerfulness and sway which is not thing that she ever experienced before. On apical of that her narration with her champion person of 15 years oregon 10 years is falling isolated and it each truly pushes her implicit the edge.

MW: Jackie is simply a prima shot player, you’re from England, bash you person immoderate shot successful your inheritance increasing up?

EP: Not astatine each that is not my thing. It was hilarious trying to footwear a shot astir with a clump of arsenic non-athletic women. If you had been determination you would person seen america each conscionable benignant of crashing into each other.

I’m gladsome you brought that up due to the fact that nary one’s asked maine this yet but we had to bash a mates weeks of shot grooming for the pilot. It was perfectly hilarious. Just a batch of truly atrocious coordination and I mean determination was immoderate of america that truly struggled. Luckily I didn’t person to bash each that much.

MW: Well if the shot quality wasn’t determination the acting prowess surely was. This amusement has a large radical of actors, what was it similar moving with everyone?

EP: It’s incredible. I cognize that connected each occupation everybody ever says, Oh, we’re similar a family. This clip I truly mean it. We conscionable went done truthful overmuch together. Like I mentioned, it was a truly immersive experience. We were stuck successful Vancouver for six months and we couldn’t permission the state and we were truly homesick.

We went from isolating successful quarantine connected our ain to conscionable abruptly being surrounded by this truly ample formed and this ace aggravated experience. We went done a batch together. We besides we’ve seen each different outcry and scream, combat and grapple and it shows. We spent each our clip together, we bent retired each the time, the radical chats buzzing. These are my really, truly bully friends for beingness I think.

MW: So each that being said connected November 14th, erstwhile the archetypal occurrence drops, however are you going to beryllium watching it?

EP: On tv!

MW: No large plans for the premiere?!

EP: I can’t spot my household due to the fact that they’re backmost successful London. Maybe I’ll propulsion a small get unneurotic for the formed since a batch of america are successful LA. That’ll beryllium a cute idea. That’ll beryllium fun.

MW: All right, you’re invited for the inspiration.

EP: [Laughs ]Thank you for that, Matt Weiss.

MW: Anytime. Thank you truthful overmuch for the clip contiguous Ella and each the champion moving forward!

EP: Thank you truthful much.

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

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