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The Show That Won’t Eat Eyeballs
Ahead of Yellowjackets’ third season, its creators hint at what’s lurking in the woods — and try to decide how gross is too gross.
But then we cast Warren Kole, and as he continued to work, and as we became more and more enamored of what he was doing and the humanity and complexity and humor he was bringing to the role, we thought, Holy shit, he’s a real character in this show and we can start writing story lines just for him. It’s one of my favorite needle drops in the series: While Tori Amos is singing “Cornflake Girl,” young Shauna takes a bite out of Jackie’s ear, which marks the first time we see one of the Yellowjackets actually consume human flesh. : I’ve got an eight-minute audio clip, which perhaps one day I’ll release, of Ben Semanoff, the director; myself; the production designers; and our young cast standing around the model of roasted Jackie that we had built, and all the crevices into which we were putting her edible flesh made of rice paper and molasses and all that stuff.
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