Melanie Lynskey Reacts to Fans' Messages Who Feel Represented by the 'Yellowjackets' Star (Exclusive)
18.02.2022 - 18:13
/ etonline.com
star Melanie Lynskey is grateful for not only the fans watching and engaging with Showtime’s twist-filled series about a high school soccer team stranded in the Canadian Rockies and those who made it out alive, but those who have reached out via social media about her seeing her onscreen. “I really appreciate people reaching out to me. I’ve gotten so many messages from women who feel very represented and seen by things they’ve seen or just by seeing my body onscreen,” Lynskey, who plays an adult version of Shauna, tells ET about connecting with fans on Twitter. “And that’s so beautiful.
I wish I could reply to everybody.” The mention about her body comes after Lynskey revealed in an interview with that she was “dismayed by those who can’t seem to believe that Adam (Peter Gadiot), the hunky young artist Shauna has an affair with, may harbor genuine interest in her character.” And it was those reactions to Adam in particular that prompted Lynskey to leave Reddit for good. “I was looking on Reddit and reading stuff. And, I just can’t.
It makes me crazy,” she says now.“There’s a lot of people saying a lot of stuff and so I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to put that down.’ It’s like an alcoholic hitting rock bottom. But, you know, I was reading all these [comments] like, ‘Who is he?’” she continues. “And I was like, ‘Wow, it’s so funny to me that nobody’s really thinking he could just be a thing.
That he could just be into her.’”“Like, on a feminist level, it was interesting to me. And I understand his character is suspicious. There’s a lot of suspicious stuff about him.
He seems shady. But I was having a lot of different reactions to it,” she says. Yet, Lynskey still thinks Twitter, “while scary and crazy,” is a fun
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