Who is gay in yellowjackets
When Yellowjackets was first announced, the immediate draws were director Karyn Kusama and a cast that included Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, and Juliette Lewis. As a 90s gay, this trio of actors have popped up in so many of my favorite movies — movies that either are gay or just feel favor gay culture. Since the younger cast has also popped up in their fair share of queer movies, I thought it would be fun to list every lgbtq+ movie featuring a Yellowjackets cast member.
I had to create some judgment calls re: what counts as a gender non-conforming movie. I didn’t include Sin City featuring Elijah Wood because Carla Gugino’s lesbian character is such a petty part. I didn’t include Cursed starring Christina Ricci because it’s gay subplot isn’t quite enormous enough. I didn’t include Army of the Dead with Ella Purnell because Tig Notaro is just playing a part originally written for a guy. And, alas, I did not add the Nickelodeon show centered around a before-she-came-out Jojo Siwa that also features Mya Lowe. Oh and I didn’t include Juliette Lewis in Whip It even though there’s definitely an argument for that one.
That last exclusion
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Overview
In 1996, a team of Novel Jersey high educational facility soccer players flew to Seattle for a national tournament. While over Canada, the plane crashed deep in the wilderness and the remaining team members were left to survive for 19 months.
Yellowjackets tells the story of the girls who survived the plane crash profound in the Ontario wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives the surviving women have attempted to piece their lives back together 25 years later.
Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher and Sammi Hanratty star as the teenagers, while Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis portray their adult counterparts as they disclose the truth about their survival.
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Characters
There are 7 gender non-conforming characters listed for this show; 1 is dead.
Regulars (3)
Recurring (2)
Guests (2)
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Now that I’ve seen the pilot of Yellowjackets, I can explain you a variety of ways you could have sold me on giving this show a try. Queer actress Jasmin Savoy Brown! One of my childhood crushes, Christina Ricci! Queer female main character! Big Little Lies meets The Wilds! Those all would have hooked me, easily. But I was sold by learning it also features Sarah Desjardin, who first charmed me in her queer role on the devastatingly underappreciated show Impulseand then later as a deliciously malicious prep school teen on Riverdale. And if it’s any indication how much I enjoyed this first episode, by the time Sarah’s character appeared on screen, I was so invested that I had completely forgotten why I started it in the first place, yelping with joy when I saw her.
All I knew about this display going into it was that it would toe the line between standard Showtime drama and thriller, and honestly I’m content I didn’t really know anything else. That said, I’m about to spill some pilot spoilers on you to try to get you to watch, so if you’re already sold, now’s the time to jump ship.
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Inside the ‘Yellowjackets’ Cast’s Buzzy Real-Life Romances
Real-Life Loves
The Yellowjackets have been through it.
Seriously, the young women at the center of Showtime’s thriller Yellowjackets have seen the worst of humanity and been a part of it themselves. Not only did the girls soccer team spend a year and a half fending off the endless dangers of the wilderness after a plane fall, the few survivors who walked away spent the next 20 years nursing the many traumas that left them with physical and metaphorical scars.
Only in a few instances were they able to detect solace, and often it was in the arms of each other. As friends, and as lovers, the feelings of intimacy and passion that went hand in hand with surviving significantly affected how all the Yellowjackets faced love in the years after the crash. It’s what makes the series a twisted love story on so many levels, some of which are still being unraveled as it heads into Season 3.
But in real being, the actors behind the survivors have forged much more normal love stories that weren’t forged from horrifying experiences –– that we know of. Here are the real-life loves of the Yellowjackets cast.