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Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 2 of Yellowjackets.

Christina Aguilera is looking fiercer than ever for her latest appearance!

Diego Ramos Bechara editor “Yellowjackets” star Samantha Hanratty has wanted to be an actor since she was two years old: “I literally told my mom, I was like, I want to be on stage in TV. I knew I was going to be an actor really out of the womb.” “I don’t know if it was like I wanted attention from being the youngest of five girls or just the love of entertaining,” she says.

The third season of Yellowjackets will not be premiering until 2025, Deadline has learned.

Sophie Nélisse, Jasmine Savoy Brown and Samantha Hanratty were among the young stars of Yellowjackets who stepped out for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday (January 15) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

Yellowjackets star Samantha Hanratty said “I do” to husband Christian DeAnda over the weekend!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Creative Coalition’s annual Humanitarian Awards takes place the week of the Primetime Emmys — but even though the big show was pushed to January, the benefit luncheon still took place on Thursday, Sept. 14 at the La Peer Hotel rooftop in West Hollywood, attracting a wide range of honorees and presenters. The Humanitarian Awards recognizes talent who donate their time, resources and their celebrity to promote worthy social causes.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large (Above, Karyn Kusama with Courtney Eaton and Samantha Hanratty of “Yellowjackets” at Variety’s TV Fest in June.) Somehow, Season 2 of Showtime’s hit drama “Yellowjackets” managed to keep its sense of humor, even as the series’ story got darker and, yes, it finally went full cannibal. It’s all about balancing the tone, which is something executive producer Karyn Kusama helped set last season as director of the show’s pilot.

are facing off in a «super competitive» episode of, which returns to ABC with season 10 in July. ET was on set with Christina Ricci, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Samantha Hanratty and more as the two different age groups from the Showtime drama united onscreen for the first time in the same show. "[It's] super competitive.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Yellowjackets” composers and songwriters Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker jumped at the chance to write the original music and lyrics contender “Sit Right Down” for Episode 7 of the Showtime series.“We were deep into the blood, fragmentation, descent and sanity-shattering music,” Wedren says, referring to the events that the survivors have to endure this season. The producers asked them to write an “MGM, old school standard number meets Bob Fosse.” The dream sequence happens as Simone Kessell’s Lottie asks the adult Yellowjackets to choose a therapy option treatment at her “wellness retreat.” Misty, played by Christina Ricci, finds herself in a sensory tank after picking “Guidance.” She needs it. In the teen timeline, Misty (played by Samantha Hanratty) makes a new bestie in Crystal, a fellow theater lover. Except, Misty’s openness with her BFF during a round of rapid-fire secrets comes to a sad end when Misty confesses she sabotaged the flight’s black box recorder. Mortified, Crystal asks if Misty will “poison her,” to which she replies “I’ll fucking kill you.” Moments later, Crystal has accidentally fallen off the cliff to her death. Meanwhile, adult Misty is racking up the “deaths” after kidnapping and spiking a reporter’s cigarette.

David Dastmalchian and Sophie Thatcher stepped out for the premiere of their new movie, The Boogeyman, held at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday night (May 23).

Having a work and life balance. Simone Kessell makes a continued effort to separate herself from her role as adult Lottie in Showtime’s Yellowjackets.

So many of Hollywood’s talented young stars all got together in one room last night!

Now that has returned with season 2, there's been a renewed search for answers to the biggest questions about the show, including everything from when the young survivors will become cannibals in the past to what's going on with Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) in the present. While at its core, the Showtime drama is about what happened to a group of teenagers after a plane crash stranded them in the wilderness for 19 months and how a few of the grownup survivors are reckoning with the secrets that amassed both then and now, it's a puzzle box series that introduces new pieces with each episode. And as a result, fans have run wild with theories and ideas about every detail of the series, much to the delight of its creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who admitted to ET that they «have been, along with the entire cast and most of our EPs, trolling Reddit a little bit and watching Twitter.» And in doing so, they noticed during season 1 that «somebody out of the thousands of comments that have come up has rightly predicted almost everything.»That said, there are still many (new and old) questions to be asked, theories to be addressed and answers to be debated. And as season 2 continues to roll out, this article will be updated with information from each new episode as well as additional insight from the creators and the cast, including the adult players, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey and Tawny Cypress, and their younger counterparts, Courtney Eaton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson, Samantha Hanratty, Sophe Nelisse and Sophie Thatcher.

After building toward it all season, Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) finally gave birth in the wilderness in one of ' most intense and emotional episodes yet. As the past timeline jumped back and forth between flashbacks of lessons learned during health class, the rest of the surviving team rallied together to prepare for the new addition to their cabin.Although Misty (Samantha Hanratty) was initially put in charge, she became too freaked out while thinking about Crystal and it was up to Akilah (Nia Sondaya) to lead the delivery.

A group effort. Lauren Ambrose and Liv Hewson offered a glimpse at their experience working together to bring Van Palmer to life during season 2 of Yellowjackets.

The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will be taking place in just a couple weeks and the first round of presenters is packed with so many stars!

Warning: Spoilers for “Yellowjackets” season 2, episode five, “Two Truths and a Lie,” directed by Ben Semanoff and written by Katherine Kearns & Sarah L. Thompson. 

When it comes to describing young Misty Quigley, the overly zealous equipment manager on the high school soccer team, Samantha Hanratty says that «a lot of her stuff is extra.» The 27-year-old breakout star adds, «She can be a very heightened human.» And what goes down at the halfway point of  season 2 is an example of just that, with Hanratty revealing she was «quite giddy» when she read the script for «Two Truths and a Lie,» aware of where things were headed for Misty since the beginning of the season. During episode five, things are starting to get even more desperate for the young survivors in the past timeline. While the girls fight over what to do with Javi (Luciano Leroux), who was miraculously found at the end of the last episode and has since refused to open up about what happened to him, and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) becomes more distraught over the impending birth of her baby, Misty finds herself caught up in a whole new problem after revealing a long-held secret about the plane crash.After Misty and her new bestie, Crystal (Nuha Jes Izman), are forced to empty the bathroom buckets, the two start confiding in each other about various secrets from their past.

Now that has returned with season 2, there's been a renewed search for answers to the biggest questions about the show, including everything from when the young survivors will become cannibals in the past to what's going on with Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) in the present. While at its core, the Showtime drama is about what happened to a group of teenagers after a plane crash stranded them in the wilderness for 19 months and how a few of the grownup survivors are reckoning with the secrets that amassed both then and now, it's a puzzle box series that introduces new pieces with each episode. And as a result, fans have run wild with theories and ideas about every detail of the series, much to the delight of its creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who admitted to ET that they «have been, along with the entire cast and most of our EPs, trolling Reddit a little bit and watching Twitter.» And in doing so, they noticed during season 1 that «somebody out of the thousands of comments that have come up has rightly predicted almost everything.»That said, there are still many (new and old) questions to be asked, theories to be addressed and answers to be debated. And as season 2 continues to roll out, this article will be updated with information from each new episode as well as additional insight from the creators and the cast, including the adult players, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey and Tawny Cypress, and their younger counterparts, Courtney Eaton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson, Samantha Hanratty, Sophe Nelisse and Sophie Thatcher.

Seven-time Grammy winner Alanis Morissette has released the new single, “No Return” (Extended Version), a reworked version of Yellowjackets’ main title theme song.  Morissette’s new take on the theme, written by Yellowjackets composers Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker, debuted in the fourth episode of the series’ second season. You can listen to it above.

Jenna Ortega and Thuso Mbedu hit the red carpet for the Dare In Gris Dior The Grey Zone Opening event on Tuesday night (April 11) in Los Angeles.

Charna Flam Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from “Digestif,” the third episode of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, now streaming on Showtime. From destroying the team’s only way out of the wilderness in the past to conducting citizen detective investigations in the present, Misty Quigley’s ambitions are always an attempt to further her relationships — switching from being a misfit, and an unknowing laughingstock — and to become a vital member of the soccer team at the center of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” As played by actor Samantha Hanratty, in “Digestif,” teenage Misty outdoes even her Season 1 antics, with one particularly eccentric breakout moment. While the girls grapple with their latest decision, to feast on their late teammate Jackie, they prepare for the birth of Shauna’s (Sophie Nélisse) baby.

Season 2 continues to be breakout year for Sammi Hanratty, who plays the younger version of Misty, one of the surviving soccer team members stranded in the wilderness in the past timeline on. And the latest episode is just another showcase of her many talents, with the 27-year-old actress getting to channel Sally Field in an unexpected and darkly funny moment on the Showtime drama. After last week's "Jackie Feast," the young girls decide to distract themselves from what they've just done by throwing an impromptu baby shower for Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), who is getting closer and closer to giving birth.

TV’s favorite soccer team is back — and fiercer than ever! The cast of Yellowjackets slayed at the season 2 premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 22. 

Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, and Tawny Cypress look amazing at the premiere of their Showtime series, Yellowjackets!

Yellowjackets. It’s a description of the Canadian forest that could work equally well as a summary of teenage girlhood.As if we weren’t already levitating with excitement about —centered on a soccer team’s worth of teen girls doing their best to survive in the wild after a plane crash—the recently released trailer for season two features a slowed-down, extremely creepy remix of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.” Perfectly matching the show’s tone, it has us counting down the minutes until our favorite depraved, feral girlies are on our TVs again.Speculation has been flying about Yellowjackets’s next installment ever since its season one finale last year, and now, we’re mere days away from finding out how Misty, Shauna, Taissa, Nat, and the rest of the gang are faring in the cold.

Emily Longeretta Young Hollywood is ready for Oscars week. On Wednesday night, some of the biggest young stars in the industry celebrated at Vanity Fair and TikTok’s Vanities: A Night for Young Hollywood at Mes Amis. The star-studded evening was co-hosted by Halle Bailey, Julia Garner and Paul Mescal, the latter of which is nominated for his performance in “Aftersun” at this weekend’s Academy Awards. Garner, who walked the red carpet with husband Mark Foster, was excited to be out and about during one of the biggest weeks of the year. “This is for the young, new talent that’s in the industry right now. It’s such an honor to be here — it’s nice to be out of the house outside of this bubble we’ve all been living in,” she told Variety. “Not via zoom!”

 are well aware, there was no woodland fairytale to follow. The first full trailer for season two of the hit drama, which follows a high school girls’ soccer team whose plane crashes and the present-day lives of those who survived their 19-month sojourn in the woods, is officially here—and things are looking bleak.In the sophomore season’s present-day storyline, stars , Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress are still carrying the “darkness” the teenage versions of themselves—played by Sophie Nélisse, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, and Tawny Cypress, respectively—grappled with decades earlier. There are also several new arrivals to the show this year, including Lauren Ambrose as adult goalie Van, who is played in the past by Liv Hewson; Jason Ritter (Lynskey’s real-life husband) in an undisclosed role; and Elijah Wood as Walter, who connects with Ricci’s Misty over their shared passion for citizen detective work.Then there is the entrance of adult Lottie Simone Kessell (played by Courtney Eaton in the past), whose delicate mental state amidst withdrawal from antipsychotic medication emboldens her to become an Antler Queen.

“Once upon a time, there was a place called the wilderness…”

Julia MacCary editor Showtime has released the trailer for Season 2 of the Emmy-nominated series “Yellowjackets,” which is accompanied by Florence + the Machine’s new cover of No Doubt’s 1995 hit “Just a Girl.” The psychological horror series follows a high school soccer team that survives a plane crash in 1996, only to be left deep in the Canadian woods. Through a mix of flashbacks and present day, the show depicts how the athletes transitioned from an elite team into a savage clan. The second season picks up two months after Shauna disregarded Jackie with bad results. The tensions have grown within the team with winter conditions intensifying, leaving the girls to make impossible decisions to survive.

The trailer for season 2 of Yellowjackets has finally debuted online and it’s teasing three timelines this season!

Showtime has dropped another trailer for season two of Yellowjackets, which will return for its second season Friday, March 24 on streaming and on demand for subscribers. It’ll make its on-air debut Sunday, March 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.  

Florence Welch is teasing Yellowjackets Season 2 with a cover from No Doubt’s 90’s hit “Just a Girl.” The singer shared a video on Instagram

Filming for Yellowjackets Season 2 has wrapped for the cast in the 90s timeline. Samantha Hanratty, young Misty Quigly, shared the news in an Instagram post.

So far, it looks like Elijah Wood has one of the more astute quotes from Yellowjackets’ second season.