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.
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For Yellowjackets‘ Warren Kole, working with an intimacy coordinator alongside TV wife Melanie Lynskey has been a “welcome surprise.”
“I didn’t know how much I would have liked that until it arrived,” the actor, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly while representing the Showtime series at PaleyFest in L.A. on April 3. “It takes pressure off. As a man sometimes it’s like you’re terrified. Like, I don’t want to offend anybody. I don’t want to overstep. But I also don’t want to betray what’s written. When you have a third party come in, now you can have a proxy to work all that out.”
Kole and Lynskey, 45, play Jeff and Shauna, respectively, on the dark psychological thriller, which debuted in 2021. Currently in its second season, the actors have collaborated on intense sex scenes onscreen.
“It’s really great actually. Warren and I trust each other so much and we’re able to come up with the most interesting version of the scene because there’s such trust that neither of us are going to be weird in any way,” Lynskey told Us at PaleyFest. “We really love each other. And so we really coordinated it together. The intimacy coordinator was just like, ‘This is great! This is so exciting!’ She’s wonderful and I love that she’s there for our whole cast.”
Working with the Togetherness alum has been a “dream” for Kole. “She’s [at] the top of her game,” he gushed. “I am very, very lucky.”
Their characters’ dynamic is a different story, however. Kole describes Jeff and Shauna as “complicated” as they continue to coverup Shauna’s affair and accidentally killing her lover.
“I think it can either explode before someone runs away or self-implodes or somehow, they can start understanding. Because it seems like there are times where both Jeff and Shauna
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.
Melanie Lynskey feels "grateful" to have found Jason Ritter. The 45-year-old actress married Jason, 43, in 2020, and although he struggled with alcoholism during the early days of their relationship, she doesn't have any regrets about their romance. Recalling the early days of their relationship, Melanie told The Independent: "Things were crazy for a while.
Melanie Lynskey in a Kiwi accent that is the antithesis of big and booming. “It’s high and quite quiet so I think it’s easy for people to make assumptions. ” People have been making assumptions about Lynskey for decades now.
Melanie Lynskey knows all too well how painful a friendship breakup can be.
Melanie Lynskey has opened up in a new interview about her former friendship with Kate Winslet.
Melanie Lynskey admitted losing touch with Kate Winslet was “heartbreaking.”
Melanie Lynskey says the loss of her friendship with Kate Winslet was more painful than some of her romantic relationship break-ups. The actresses became close pals as teenagers when they worked on 1994 movie 'Heavenly Creatures' together but Melanie, 45, has revealed the pair drifted apart in the years afterwards and she watched from the sidelines as her former friend became one of the most famous women in the world. Speaking on Josh Horowitz's 'Happy Sad Confused' podcast, Melanie insisted there was no drama between them but it was still painful to lose touch.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet earned their acting breakthroughs together as the leads of Peter Jackson’s 1994 drama “Heavenly Creatures,” but the two actors grew apart in the years afterward as Winslet’s star power exploded with “Titanic.” On a new episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly), Lynskey said losing her close friendship with Winslet was “painful.” “When I lost touch with Kate, it was more heartbreaking than some breakups that I’ve had,” Lynskey said. “It was so painful and it wasn’t like anything happened, it’s just she became a gigantic, international movie star and she didn’t have a lot of time and then, suddenly, she’d be in Los Angeles and not have time.”
Melanie Lynskey enjoyed starring opposite Kate Winslet in 1994’s Heavenly Creatures — but distance impacted their friendship once the movie wrapped.
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.
Anne Perry, whose crime writing was shadowed by her role in a murder that was spotlighted in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film, Heavenly Creatures, has died at 84.
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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, Sammi Hanratty, Sophe Nelisse and Sophie Thatcher.
is bringing colorful suiting to the red carpet once again. Following up on the she wore to the premiere in March, the actor wore a bubblegum pink suit to PaleyFest LA on April 3, and I am loving this new era for her.Lynskey's double-breasted blazer and wide-legged trousers made for a classic silhouette, while the suit's Barbiecore hue kept the look fun and flirty. Instead of a lacy bustier, Lynskey went with a simple black camisole this time, and swapped the side-pony hair for a low-key side-part.
Melanie Lynskey is sharing her relationship deal breaker — and how she knew husband Jason Ritter was the one for her. The couple met in 2013, became engaged in 2017 and wed in 2020. Lynskey and Ritter recently made headlines following a tearful joint interview, reflecting on the «messy» start of their relationship and how Ritter worked to overcome his alcoholism in those years. Speaking with ET's Deidre Behar at the ' Paleyfest panel on Monday, Lynskey opened up about building an unbreakable bond with her now-husband. «There was something about his willingness to have a conversation, always,» she shared on the red carpet. «Even in our darkest and most difficult moments, which there were a few, he would always talk about it.
Season 2 of Yellowjackets had a buzzy premiere week.
Once upon a time, the movie Ever After: A Cinderella Story hit theaters in 1998 — and the film’s star-studded cast has been up to a lot since their time in fairy tale France.
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, Sammi Hanratty, Sophe Nelisse and Sophie Thatcher.
Honest about his ups and downs. Jason Ritter has celebrated his triumphs and been candid about his shortcomings over the years.