Van was not the onlyYellowjacketssurvivor we lostin season 3, as adult Lottie was also murdered in episode 4.
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The answer, while not a spoiler, was particularly interesting.
Semanoff confessed that in the script, it doesn’t say what shes looking at.
As a director, however, he was informed of what the reveal would be.
ButYellowjacketsis full of characters who cannot be trusted, so the answer to the mystery remains open-ended.
Based on Semanoff’s words, though,fans can rest assured that the crumbshave been there all along.
As for the actual picture on the phone?
Semanoff himself is the guilty party.
I just was like, It should be pictures like this and like that.
And then they were like, Well, we’ll just use those.
So, that’s what Christina is looking at when we don’t show what she’s seeing.
How did you build that important death up over the episode?
Ben Semanoff: This was a big talking point between writers and Lauren [Ambrose].
I think, for me, the biggest thing was how the knife was used.
In earlier episodes, like episode 3, there are a lot of knife gags.
Melissa has her back to Van because I love what I call stolen moments for the audience.
And that’s what that moment, really.
We see Van grappling completely with the decision, standing over a completely helpless body.
It would’ve been so easy just to plunge that knife in and leave her.
But I thought, “No, that’s the moment.
We don’t want an answer.
We don’t want to button that scene knowing that she’s going to untie Melissa.”
Obviously, the question is, “Did she fail or was she victorious?”
And she was victorious, right?
She said the real Taissa.
She was a hero, no doubt.
In The Goonies' definition, she was a hero.
She just didn’t survive.
I really wanted it to feel like they were comforting each other first.
Why does she stab her?
It’s a little hard to parse because it’s a five-season arc.
And is everything spelled out at once in television?
She was living a completely secretive life.
My answer is that she was sick of it.
It was a pretty exciting time, and now they’ve all sort of gone on their way.
Shauna is completely miserable in her life, and I think Melissa feels similarly.
I think one of the things I wanted to do was really parallel Shauna and Melissa.
I really wanted the two women to be living similar lives and be similarly sick of it.
I’m going to let the YJs know I’m alive.
They’re going to come after me, and then all hell’s going to break loose."
I think this is what she wanted.
That’s the reason for me.
I love how that all happened, and that’s why I think she stabs her at the end.
This is the game.
This is what you do.
We have the drawn-out and explosive confrontation between Shauna and Melissa.
How do you maintain the investment from an emotional perspective?
Ben Semanoff: That’s a good question.
How do you maintain an air of mystery?
The mystery then becomes whether her paranoia was justified.
And I think what this episode does is start to punch holes in that a little bit.
Most of it’s internal.
Especially because you’re starting in the middle of a fight from the previous episode and building from there.
That’s always the biggest challenge.
The three of us were in constant conversation about, “Well, this works for me.”
“That doesn’t work for me.”
“Can we change this?
Because I’m going to have a problem with this.”
There are these conversations after the fact where you go, “Well, what did you shoot?
Oh, did you see that couch?
Can we change the couch?
Will anybody notice?”
The writers might bend a little bit too.
These things required nuanced adjustments in the writing and performance.
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How do you position her and work with the actors to clarify her perspective?
Ben Semanoff: That’s a good point.
I think it’s inherent in her character, and maybe it’s a little bit of a psychosis.
For Taissa in the teen timeline, it’s almost a nod to her future legal background.
But I think Shauna is just operating, in both timelines, on this primal instinct.
That’s the only way I can define it.
I think Shauna kind of hates the world.
A perfect example is when she’s sitting with the Joels, just sickened by the whole shtick.
She just hates the world.
The answer is she hates the world, and we see that she hates everything in the future.
Watching the two of them, there’s a maturity to the adult Shauna that’s really interesting.
She’s just purely nasty in the past; just purely feral.
But it feels a little bit more sophisticated in the present; there’s an adultness to her insanity.
It’s been 20-some years.
But she still hates that world.
ScreenRant: You’ve worked with Melanie Lynskey before onCandy.
Have you developed a shorthand with her now for this project?
With performers, it’s, “How do I communicate with this person?
What communication do they respond to, and what do they not respond to?”
That can sometimes take up a lot of time.
“Oh, my God.
I finally know what makes this person tick.
Now give me four more weeks, so I can really do my thing.”
“Does this person bring anything to the table?”
But we are past all that.
Melly and I get along terrifically.
I think that’s been a really lovely benefit of working on the show.
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