“Despite her natural talent, Natalie’s punk rock spirit and habit of finding trouble make her the unlikeliest member of the team. Eager to please and easy to overlook, Misty’s abundance of team spirit belies a hidden dark side.” Lewis plays the present day version of a character named Natalie, with Sophie Thatcher playing the teenage Natalie. Ricci and Hanratty play the present and teenage versions of Misty, “the Yellowjackets’ equipment manager. The series will chronicle their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over.Ĭreated, written, executive produced by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson (who serve as showrunners alongside executive producer Jonathan Lisco), the series also stars Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Sammi Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nelisse, Steven Krueger, Amy Okuda, and Jasmin Savoy Brown. A rich kid whose parents furnished her soccer team with a private plane in order for the Yellowjackets to travel to nationals, Lottie had been forced to go off her anti-psychotic medication after that plane crashed in the wilderness, where the show’s 1996 timeline is set.“Ĭhristina Ricci and Juliette Lewis star in Yellowjackets, which is is described as “equal parts survival epic, horror story, and coming-of-age drama.” The story centers onĪ team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. Variety explains that Lottie “ emerged as the central antagonist of the show in the first season of Yellowjackets. Now the adult version of another character has been cast: Variety reports that Simone Kessell ( Obi-Wan Kenobi) has signed on to play the adult Lottie Matthews.Ĭourtney Eaton ( Mad Max: Fury Road) plays the teenage Lottie. Last week, it was announced that Lauren Ambrose ( Servant) was joining the cast of the Showtime series Yellowjackets to play the adult version of the character Van Palmer, who is played as a teenager on the show by Liv Hewson ( Santa Clarita Diet).

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