*WARNING: Spoilers for Yellowjackets season 2 below*
In the second episode of season two, the Yellowjackets teenagers fell into cannibalism, which left many of the actors puking off camera.
The Showtime series follows a girls’ high school football team that becomes stranded when their plane crashes in mysterious woods on their way to a tournament in 1996, focusing on their attempts to survive while waiting to be rescued, while present-day flashforwards confirm that not everyone on the team survives.
The show’s producers have previously hinted that things get very dark in the forests, implying that the kids turn to cannibalism, sorcery, and murder in the countryside.
The second episode of season two showed the group consuming what was remained of Jackie Taylor’s (Ella Purnell) corpse after she froze to death at the conclusion of the first series, so viewers didn’t have to wait long for things to take a turn.
Spilling the goods on the action, the ensemble maintained that the body was constructed of ‘jackfruit and rice paper rolls,’ which sounds delicious.
‘It was disgusting… but also kind of delicious. That’s all I’m going to say about that,’ Scream 6 actress Jasmin Savoy Brown, who plays teenage Taissa, enthused.
‘She was made of jackfruit and rice paper rolls, so we nicknamed her Jackie-fruit,’ Courtney Eaton, aka young Lottie, said.
‘It was an interesting day to film. I think we freaked out our crew a little bit. I gagged, (Samantha Hanratty) threw up. But yeah, it’s a weird one. I hope the fans like it, I know they kind of want it.’
Young Shauna Shipman star Sophie Nelisse added to People Magazine: ‘Eating her was absolutely disgusting, even though jackfruit is actually quite delicious.
‘It was just, [I] couldn’t wrap my head around what I was doing, and all I could see was this weird skin. And it felt so realistic. I gagged in the scene a few times. I could barely get through it.’
That does not sound appetising…
Since the show’s debut in 2021, bosses have hinted at cannibalism, with those in control disclosing that there would be gritty times ahead.
The video was intercut with images of the Yellowjackets dressed to the nines in gorgeous Grecian dresses, encircled by an actual feast of fruit and meat on a candle-lit table, adding another layer of decadence.
Jonathan Lisco, executive director, shared light on the action and the mood on set with the youthful ensemble, confessing it was a very jovial atmosphere.
‘There were so many jaw-dropped reactions to the script when it came out, and I think it’s because they couldn’t believe we were going there so early in the season,’ he told Deadline. ‘We felt we were ready to do it. We’re also not in the business of manipulating the audience for something they already know is coming.
‘It didn’t feel satisfying to introduce this concept of ritual cannibalism in the pilot and then make the audience wait to see when they actually cross that Rubicon.
‘The cast was very into it – but then they realized what it actually entails. It was like art imitating life and vice versa, because when we started to talk about it, there was a lot of humor. In the same way that the Yellowjackets were using the Greco-Roman feast as a protective mechanism, the cast had to use humor as a protective mechanism when they started to anticipate actually playing the scene.
‘The cast is just laughing their butts off – and yet also vibrating. You could feel the energy: “Oh my God, are we really going to do this?” Some of them are nervous. We all bet on who’s going to throw up first – obviously just jovially. If anybody was really uncomfortable, we would have stopped and we would have dealt with it. But everybody was ready to go.’
Yellowjackets airs on Showtime on Sundays at 9pm.
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