‘Yellowjackets’ Star Sophie Nélisse Reveals What That [SPOILER] Was Made From…
Anyone else stay up till midnight to watch Yellowjackets last night? Cool, we have some things to discuss. Most notably, the show finally dipped a toe—or rather, an ear—into the whole cannibalism thing when Shauna casually ate a piece of Jackie’s ear.
Quick recap: Shauna spends much of the episode talking to Jackie’s frozen corpse, as ya do, and accidentally-on-purpose knocks her over—causing a piece of ear to break off. Shauna pockets the ear and then, in the last moments of the episode, pops it into her mouth as a…snack?
IDK, but obviously we have questions. The first of which is: What was this ear made of??? Well, actor Sophie Nélisse, who plays Shauna, told Entertainment Weekly, “It was just, like, silicone. It was super squishy, kind of like a gummy almost.” Cool-cool-cool, and meanwhile, co-showrunner Ashley Lyle added, “We wrapped and props asked, ‘What do you want to take home as a souvenir?’ So I got an ear and I think I’m going to frame it in a little shadow box.”
So, why did Shauna eat Jackie’s ear—other than hunger? Co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco told the Hollywood Reporter that when it came to introducing cannibalism, they wanted to tap into Shauna’s emotions:
“It can’t just be incident. It can’t just be plot. It has to emanate from character. And so for us, it really began as kind of a Shauna story to try to locate where Shauna was, emotionally and psychologically, at the beginning of the season. She’s such an important linchpin for a lot of what happens in the wilderness, and so once we realized that she was sort of harboring all of this guilt and self-recrimination and anguish and shame from her stubbornness that led to, arguably, Jackie dying in the wilderness, how could we continue that story in a really vivid way? And given that the friendship was so fraught and complex in that she loved Jackie but she also wanted to destroy her, she lived in her shadow yet this was her best friend. The next step in that is consumption, in a way. And she’s also pregnant, let’s not forget. And starving. And so it started to speak to us as a very truthful story. And once it started to speak to us in that way, it felt like, why should we wait? Why should we tease it out?”
Amazing. In the words of Jessie Spano:
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