What were your favorite moments to act from the season’s first few episodes?
Thatcher: I loved the trial scene. I think Jennifer Morrison is a brilliant director, and it’s rare to get directors that come from an acting standpoint. I think she’s really smart with how she talks to actors, because she’s been there and it’s so cool seeing how she flips her dialogue a bit per actor, because it’s all psychology-based. As a director, you have to talk to actors in a way that they understand, and each actor is so different. She was just so smart with that, and did such a great job doing that episode. I’m a huge fan of her.
Brown: I really liked the establishing of the village—like, filming all of the little pieces that the audience sees that establishes the Yellowjackets in this new community that they’ve built, because that was also us as performers, physically getting to know the space. You know, it’s fun to play the girls when they’re happy, because that doesn’t happen often. [Laughs.] So it was cool to be dressed up and be in character, but also be relaxed and laughing and safe. I got a kick out of that. It felt like a trick. When we’d be having a nice time on set and it was, like, light and easy, we’d be like, “Are we bad actors? This doesn’t feel hard.”
I’d love to know which Yellowjackets character you most identify with, whether it’s your own or someone else’s.
Thatcher: I’m going to say Natalie. I feel very much like my character, only not as dark, thank God.
Hewson: Yeah, I’m the same. I feel scared going any other way, yeah? Like, I feel such a deep identification with Van. She’s a real person to me. I’ve joked before that it’s like she’s a friend of mine, but there are a lot of commonalities there.
Brown: Walter’s love for musicals really hits me right in the chest. It might be Walter for me.
This conversation has been edited and condensed.
