Christina Ricci breaks down that Yellowjackets scene
I'm putting this under a cut for people who watch the show on Sunday. Spoilers.
Caligula came to life in a sequence that 'Yellowjackets' fans won't soon forget. Christina Ricci takes us inside the filming of it. https://t.co/xz8EuerKyq
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 12, 2023
In the show Christina Ricci's character has a hallucinatory music sequence in which John Cameron Mitchell appears as her pet bird Caligula.
Says Ricci, "The scene is written in such a way and in the stage direction they talk about how the characters feel about certain things. And my character is just delighted from the beginning. She loves musicals. Here's her best friend Caligula dancing in front of her and then Walter comes out. And originally it was written that Misty jumps up and joins them. We did a whole song-and-dance sequence that didn't make the episode. Probably my dancing was not good enough."
She also says "As much as [Misty] argues that the choices she makes are pragmatic or the murders she commits are for the good of the group and are logical and don't count as murder because they're not based in emotion, we get to finally see in this moment that actually she is a little bit conflicted. She doesn't want to be seen as a bad person. We see that, as much as she seems to never question herself or analyze herself in any way, she actually does struggle with this idea that people might see her as a bad person. That is really interesting. But it's so funny how immediately her subconscious is like, 'Nope, you're fine.' She's like, 'Yeah, that's what I thought.'
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Caligula came to life in a sequence that 'Yellowjackets' fans won't soon forget. Christina Ricci takes us inside the filming of it. https://t.co/xz8EuerKyq
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 12, 2023
In the show Christina Ricci's character has a hallucinatory music sequence in which John Cameron Mitchell appears as her pet bird Caligula.
Says Ricci, "The scene is written in such a way and in the stage direction they talk about how the characters feel about certain things. And my character is just delighted from the beginning. She loves musicals. Here's her best friend Caligula dancing in front of her and then Walter comes out. And originally it was written that Misty jumps up and joins them. We did a whole song-and-dance sequence that didn't make the episode. Probably my dancing was not good enough."
She also says "As much as [Misty] argues that the choices she makes are pragmatic or the murders she commits are for the good of the group and are logical and don't count as murder because they're not based in emotion, we get to finally see in this moment that actually she is a little bit conflicted. She doesn't want to be seen as a bad person. We see that, as much as she seems to never question herself or analyze herself in any way, she actually does struggle with this idea that people might see her as a bad person. That is really interesting. But it's so funny how immediately her subconscious is like, 'Nope, you're fine.' She's like, 'Yeah, that's what I thought.'
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