Stars Sophie Nélisse and Courtney Eaton talked to Buzzfeed News about filming season two of the hit Showtime series.
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"Yellowjackets" stars Sophie Nélisse and Courtney Eaton spoke to BuzzFeed News about shooting a "disgusting" season two scene in an interview published Friday.
The Showtime series, which follows a girl's soccer team stranded in a Canadian forest, shows the unappetizing measures the girls take to survive. "Yellowjackets" also follows the team to the present day, 25 years after the crash.
In this week's episode, the starving girls resort to cannibalism in a highly anticipated scene. Jackie (Ella Purnell), one of the teammates, froze to death in the first season, but her best friend Shauna (Nélisse) can't part ways with her body.
During the episode, the team must decide what to do with the corpse. When Taissa (Jasmine Savoy Brown) suggests burning the body, the smell entices the starving teens to eat their deceased friend and teammate.
Nélisse and Eaton told BuzzFeed News that the fake human meat was made out of rice paper and jackfruit.
"We were pulling out the rice paper, and it was all soggy," Nélisse said to BuzzFeed. "We were like, 'This is the grossest thing ever.' It just tasted disgusting."
Nélisse told the outlet that the rice paper and jackfruit concoction "wasn't bad" when the cast tried it before filming. Then, everything changed once the cast was assigned to eat different parts of the prosthetic body.
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For Eaton, the combination of the "rubbery," "slimy" jackfruit, rice paper, and the prosthetic smell made her gag a couple of times. Though Eaton was close, the actor said that her costar Samantha Hanratty did actually throw up while filming.
"They should have sprayed some hamburger smell or something," Eaton jokingly said.
Eaton also told BuzzFeed that she doesn't think her character, Lottie, is to blame for the cannibalism, though Lottie has taken a leadership role in the group.
"Once you kind of have this idea in your head for something that's kind of forbidden and there's no societal rules and you have the opportunity to do it, and you're at this point of starving, I think you're gonna end up reverting to some animalistic things," Eaton said to the outlet.
Nélisse added that her character Shauna is also exploring animalistic tendencies this season. "I definitely think she goes down a really dark path. I think she goes a little feral and animalistic with it," Nélisse told Insider in March 2023..
