Melanie Lynskey Has A Lot Of Darkness To Draw On For Her Yellowjackets Role – Looper

If anything is a metaphor for the difficulties of being a teenage girl, it’s “Yellowjackets.” Sure, the New Jersey girls’ soccer team is thrown into impossible circumstances when they crash-land in the Canadian wilderness. However, this is only the icing on the cake of adolescence. Especially as a teenager, it is easy to be insecure, questioning if your friends like you or if it’s all pretend. Melanie Lynskey understood these complex dynamics that she struggled with in her youth.

“I wasn’t a very light teenager. I was quite sort of depressed a lot of the time,” Lynskey told NPR. “If you’ve ever been shy or awkward, it’s almost impossible to stop feeling that way.” Even without the tragedy of a plane crash, it’s unlikely that Shauna would remain friends with her best friend, Jackie (Ella Purnell). Before they get on the plane, young Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) and Jeff (Jack DePew) have already slept together behind Jackie’s back. Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) already has the trauma of watching her father’s brutal death. And Misty (Samantha Hanratty) is already … well, Misty. Being a teenage girl is one of the most harrowing experiences one can go through, as anyone who has been through it knows. Even into adulthood, Shauna can’t reconcile what she went through. Not every teenage girl knows what it’s like to find your best friend frozen to death, but everyone knows what it’s like to have doubts.