Ella Purnell Talks “Disconcerting” Experience of Seeing "Yellowjackets" Character’s Dead Body
by Glenn Garner
November 7, 2024


Ella Purnell didn’t quite have the appetite to watch one of her onscreen characters go. After starring in the first season of Showtime‘s "Yellowjackets", the actress recently opened up about the “disconcerting” experience of seeing her character Jackie’s dead body on the show following her death at the end of the Season 1 finale.

“Yeah, it was weird. I knew it was gonna happen, I kind of put two and two together,” she noted at a recent Fan Expo in Chicago. “But I was filming Fallout, and the schedule was very, very demanding. I was exhausted. And I was getting the scripts for Season 2 [of Yellowjackets] but I wasn’t maybe reading them as quickly as I should have been, because I had a lot going on.”




She added, “And I just woke up one morning, and I had all these pictures from my Yellowjackets castmates of them taking selfies with my charred corpse. You know when you wake up and you don’t know where you are?

It was like that but on steroids, because I woke up and I was like, ‘Am I dead? What’s happened?’ So, it was a little bit disconcerting. I actually haven’t watched that episode because I don’t know what it’s gonna do to my mental health. I don’t really want to risk it, so I haven’t seen it.”

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