Summary
Yellowjacketshas a phenomenal team at the helm.
ShowrunnersAshley Lyle,Bart NickersonandJonathan Liscodo a top-tier job steering the ship.
A prime example of that?
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HowLiv Hewsonchanged the game for their character, Van Palmer.
In May 2023, Hewsonbecame the very first guestonCollider Forces, a show they inspired.
Hewsons inspired significant change in recent years.
Change for themself, change for non-binary representation in Hollywood, and also a significant change to theYellowjacketsnarrative.
However, that was the original game plan.
If I’m here for a short time, I’m gonna do the best I can.
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But,Ithink this character is very interesting!
I was sort of getting away with as much as I could.
I feel much more secure and secure in myself.
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I will go and watch.
And it was a head trip.
She’s so good.
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That’s always been really sentimental for me.
I can see where some of these threads are starting for me.
It’s like, Okay, I know where I’m going, and that’s cool, too.
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Does Van Really Think Ben Burned Down the Cabin?
I don’t think that Van, to her core, believes anything.
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However, thats where Hewsons understanding of their character makes all the difference.
For example, does Van really believe Ben (Steven Krueger) burned down the cabin?
No, but Hewson is well aware of the critical component that drives Van to make such decisions.
I don’t think she does, to her core, believe that Ben did it.
I think, in her mind, she’s doing everybody else a favor.
Because any alternative possibility would be life-shattering.
You are not yourself, and you’re not behaving as you would normally behave.
Oh my god, I’ve been telling myself the wrong story about this the whole time.
Oh, fuck, we’re goinghome!
Oh, that’s different.
That is a completely different story to the one that I’ve been telling myself and telling everybody else.
So, now what?
Now it’s intolerable.
Now it’s intolerable to stay, it’s intolerable to confront or think about.
It’s like,Holy fuck, we’re going home!
Identifying that major shift in the character was quite easy for Hewson courtesy of a single line of dialogue.
When I read it, I was like, Oh, great.
Iknow exactly the switch that I’m gonna carry Van through making for the rest of the season.
Okay, that, at some point, is going to happen.
Why Is Van So Eager to Call Her Mom?
I have been thinking about Van and her mom since we shot the pilot.
Without hesitation, Van says, Im gonna try my mom.
What I really appreciated about it was that, the audience knows what Vans mom is like.
The others don’t, necessarily.
I don’t think Van talks about her mom.
That particular turn in Hewsons portrayal of Van in the final episodes of Season 3 is downright exquisite.
Van, in particular, has always been a rather mature and formidable figure within the group.
In Episode 7, Hewson gets an opportunity that they advocated for.
They get to share the screen with Ambrose.
The scenes between Lauren and I are so important to me.
Theyre such a special part of this season.
While both are dream sequences, Hewson isolated a key difference between the two.
The scenes in Episode 9, however, are the polar opposite.
I really understood those asVans inner child ushering her through the experience of dying."
They continued, “I don’t think younger Van is necessarily literally in those scenes.
I think it’s an imagining of her.
It truly is like yourself as a teenager visiting you as an adult.
People ask me that all the time.
Oh, what would you say to yourself when you were younger if you could say anything?
And it’s always a really emotional question.
So, those scenes, I think, were an opportunity to play out a dynamic like that.
What is cool is that Laurens Van is not comfortable with Van in the wilderness.
Butyoung Van adores Van in the present because, you made it.
You made it out, and I’m going to look after you now.
Whats Up With Those Yellowjackets Plane Scenes?
I didn’t feel caught up in the dream logic.
It just is like,man, Van Palmer, you mean the world to me.
I just remember thinking that.
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Yellowjacketsis available to stream on Paramount+.
