Christina Ricci discusses 'Yellowjackets,' why Jenna Ortega is 'perfect' as Wednesday Addams, and the first question an actor should ask about their character.
Christina Ricci wouldn’t want to know Misty Quigley in real life, but she has a protective soft spot for her “Yellowjackets” character. In this episode of “The Envelope,” Ricci delves into why she enjoys playing the impulsive outcast and what she values about the series’ unconventional exploration of trauma.
“Yellowjackets” is both a psychological horror story and a coming-of-age drama as it follows the saga of a girls’ soccer team stranded in the wilderness for nearly a year after a plane crash in the ’90s. Christina plays one of the survivors in the present day, alongside co-stars that include Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Elijah Wood.Christina is so good in capturing how Misty is both painfully endearing and also totally unhinged.
Because there was a lot of questions in the beginning. When we did the pilot, there was a decision made that she was to be more clearly a sociopath and maybe more clinically follow that sort of diagnosis. But then once we got to Season 1, understandably, the idea of pigeonholing this character into that — I think it limits what you can do with her later on. So there was a decision to not have her be that anymore and certainly not to label her that way.
Yeah. It was when I started doing a lot of independent film. The reason I got “The Opposite of Sex,” which was one of the first independent films I did in the ’90s that kind of helped me have an adult career, I was cast because I was different. I was cast because I wasn’t being winky or cute about the material. And so, again, I think what I loved about independent film is that the people making the movies, the directors, the writers actually appreciated how different I was.
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