Yellowjackets’Juliette Lewis & Tawny Cypress Discuss Portraying Their Characters

Yellowjackets’Juliette Lewis & Tawny Cypress Discuss Portraying Their Characters

Yellowjackets’Juliette Lewis & Tawny Cypress Discuss Portraying Their Characters

Yellowjackets season one saw Juliette Lewis’ Natalie and Tawny Cypress’ Taissa go through a lot, which defined their characters for season two. Although their core characteristics remained, both characters had major changes in the current season of Yellowjackets.

Collider asked the pair how they maintained some consistency in their roles after the significant development in their characters. Cypress admits that she focuses on her character’s core traits; she shared,

“When you’re crafting a character you have to craft who that character is, their history, and all that sort of thing. In television, it changes from time to time, but the core of who Taissa is, she’s a narcissist, she’s selfish. Even falling apart in Season 2, she’s still selfish.”

She added that some might have seen Taissa helping Van, but in reality, Taissa did it for her own personal agenda. She added,

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“I don’t know how many you’ve seen, but her finding Van, that’s not to help Van. That’s to help herself. In trying to help herself, I think she reverts back — it’s sort of like your first love when you’re a teenager and you see that person again 20 years later, you fall sort of right back into old habits that you had and that’s the Taissa you’re gonna see in Season 2. She is nothing like Season 1 Taissa.”

RELATED: Yellowjackets’ Melanie Lynskey Talks Shauna’s Thoughts After Brutal Season One Moment

Juliette Lewis Researched How She Can Portray Natalie Better

Both Taissa and Natalie changed a lot in season two, and while Cypress internalized the core values of her character Taissa, Lewis did some research on how she could thoroughly portray what her character went through. She said,

“Natalie is totally different as well in that the first season she was strong-willed in her ruin. You’re really seeing someone circle the drain and do it in a harsh manner defiantly because her love has been stolen from her, and she’s also just super toxic. So this new place, she’s cleaned up. It was not by choice. But I watched a few things of people who survived suicide. That was really compelling because you could switch on a dime to want to live in [a] turn of events. A guy, he does TED Talks, he survived jumping off a bridge. It was really fascinating.”

Although Lewis’ character went through the same experience, Natalie’s is just different. She had different goals, Lewis added,

“Natalie’s wanting to find the truth and she’s softer and it’s a really odd, unfamiliar place for her to be quite what you’d want for a person — by the end, she wants answers for everybody to do better.”

Yellowjackets season two premiered on Showtime on Mar. 24.

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