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“I threw the script,” Jasmin Savoy Brown confesses about her preliminary response to studying the scene in Episode 6 of Yellowjackets the place her character, Taissa, and the opposite stranded teenagers greedily devour Shauna’s (Sophie Nélisse) new child. “I will not do that. That’s my boundary. Then when it turned out to be a dream, I felt more comfortable.”
Shauna’s tough labor, with Tai at her aspect, was additionally brutal for the forged. “It was traumatic for a couple reasons,” Brown reveals on The Buzz on Yellowjackets aftershow. “It was triggering for a lot of people. A lot of us have personal experience with pregnancies gone wrong, like with someone we love in our family. It was also really hard because we had to shoot it twice [due to technical problems]. Your worst nightmare for any scene. It was the worst day I ever had on set. Some of us cried.”
In this wilderness world with dying round each nook, Brown sees her character as strolling a high quality line to outlive. “Tai is smart, smarter than Coach Ben (Steven Krueger). Sometimes you have to play the game. As a viewer, I thought it was really dumb for Ben Scott not to at least pretend to participate in eating Jackie. In these survival situations, you have to be in the group. Tai is smarter than him, and we’ll see how that plays out.”
And whereas Tai could also be giving lip service to Lottie’s (Courtney Eaton) wilderness-worshipping cult, a part of her does need to imagine in it, evidenced by her placing what seemed to be a magical allure in Shauna’s hand throughout labor. “I think that might be Tai saying,’ I’ll do anything to keep my friend alive. I’ll worship your stupid god, do your stupid chants.’ That’s one moment where Tai has no ego.”
One factor Brown has been lobbying for with Tai is extra of an on-screen relationship with Akila (Nia Sondaya).“If there’s only two Black girls in the woods, they would be together all the time, that would be a very quick alliance. We’ve had more of those in Season 2 which I’m grateful for.”
Check out the video to listen to extra about Tai’s sleepwalking scenes; her visions of the mysterious man with no eyes; and Brown’s theories about how Lottie may reply violently to eventual rescuers. The actress additionally hints about how the lack of Shauna’s child will change the group. “There are things alluded to in Episode 3 that are going to come to fruition as a result of this grief. There are serious clues.”
Yellowjackets, Sundays, 9/8c, Showtime (and Fridays on On Demand and Streaming)
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