Jonathan Lisco on Hallucination Scene, Jackie’s Return

Corruption alert: This story contains spoilers for “”Yellowjackets“Season 3, Episode 3, entitled” The Breaks “, now on Paramount+ with Showtime.

Unintentionally stumbled on Shrooms during Doomcoming (Season 1), Yellowjackets now stumbled on a new hallucinogenic material in the wild: toxic gas.

In the third episode of the third season, the survivors of the young aircraft learn that coach Scott (Stephen Kruger) is still alive when Mary (Alexa Paraguas), who cracks under pressure after two questions, reveals that he kidnapped her and kept her in a secret cave. Yellowjackets then begins chasing to search for justice, because they believe that coach Scott tried to burn them alive inside the cabin.

After finding the entrance to the cave, Natalie (SophieTcher) divides girls into groups to expand their research. Shona (Sophie Nils), Van (Lev Hyousson) and Akila (Nia Sondwoy) explore a narrow and dark corridor, but they face a problem when their candles are extinguished with water diameter. Then the three girls are separated, and each different hallucinations experience: Van returned inside the cabin and heated herself in front of the stove, wandered acle through the forest and communicated with Lama speaking, and Shawna monitors her son while going into the lake. Any moment of happiness, although hallucinations take a dark turn.

“This entire sequence took a great deal of work. Na is talking to Lama, and my Sufi in the lake, then I am in the cabin on the fire – this fire is my work. Hyuson, who uses them/their consciences, said, said, diverse During “Yellowjackets” season 3 journal Junket. They added, “This offer provides us with really great opportunities to do things, such as, and play with magic realism.”

The third episode represents the first appearance of the director Jonathan LescoWho also wrote this episode with the participating creators and colleagues of the show Bart Nicarson and Ashley Layel. Lesco described the scene of the semester – Shona, and a common hallucinatory Akla – as a way to photograph “the slave between what is happening objectively” and “personal awareness, almost collectively, is not clear to reality.”

Girls also see another familiar face next to them, playing a slap bracelet: Jackie (Ella Burnil), who froze to death at the end of the first season, after she was Xuna an argument.

“It is always fun to restore Ella. It is fun for these characters to come and chase, because when they die, we are fine,“ there is nothing wrong, we will see you again. ”But they are sweet and passed, because they are only there, one day. It seems as if we were transferred Immediately to shoot the first season and I will get a group forever, then disappear the next day. ” “But this dream sequence is very fun, because we have a lot of freedom and freedom to explore. There are no rules about what these dreams can be.”

In an interview with diverseLesco talked about the triple hallucinations sequence, Burnil’s return as Jackie, and the story of the man who does not help her.

This is the first time that it was directed, the period. Why do you want to direct this episode in particular?

Well, I am always a fan of the line between personal and objective reality. I am also very interested in the way the young women collapses, if it is permissible to speak, in the wilderness, then build itself with new agreements and new criteria for what is right and wrong. So, we felt in particular that we wrote as if we were an ideal opportunity for me, at least, to spread this interest to another. I love when the show takes you on a journey, somehow, beyond logic. I like when the show takes you on a journey, we hope, if we do our work properly, you can feel honest, but not necessarily what you may call a logic in a written space in the actual time. Thus, I love to play with these ideas. I love the plasticity for them.

Why did the hallucinations sequence van, Shouna and Akla include?

When we were going to the various characters that could participate in the hallucinations sequence, we felt that there was an effectiveness for Akilah, Van and Shauna, because of what we could do with this series of the type lynchian. I feel that we have been filled with an eclipse as a nature child. She loves animals, she is very close to the ground, and she loves the garden. Of course, in the sequence, all this turns into a very dark for her at the beginning. There is a lust that resembles Bacchaanalian for berries, but then they end up around her legs and pull it into the darkness of the earth, such as the darkness that is chicken in the width.

With Van, it is clear that it is a porch, it’s strong and funny. Let’s talk about this from Lev’s point of view: they are playing the character of the two galleries and trying to push the assistant to the fact that they were left to death on the plane in episode 2 of the first season. But now, all of this is due to chasing them. I do not know if you have noticed it, but it is a hidden hand, it is the hand of the man cabin and it is the hand of Laura Lee, and all of them return from the dead to tie them with the chair and say: “No, you can never escape from this matter physically shock. It will determine you for the rest of your life.”

Then, similarly, with Shona, which may be the most psychological understanding – at least on her face. Shouna lost a child. It may be one of the most painful things that anyone can go through. Only a 17 -year -old woman is in the wild, and now she begins to swim towards this imaginary child on the banks of this lake. And she can not only hear the child-in reality, was a 7-year-old boy, but this is beside the point-she swims towards him and she can never approach enough to save him, and she can never approach enough to his habit. After that, from that air snapshot, it was already pulled, as if she was saying that she might be complicit in what happened, and may have never wanted to have the child in the first place. So there is all this happens in psychological soup and Goulash for what we do, and we just thought, Oh, this is great.

When talking about the scene of the semester, we see Ella Burnil returning to Jackie. How was her return to the group?

I love that Ella always wants to come in our sand box regardless of what. She always tries to return. When I said, “Return for one day,” I jumped to an opportunity to do so. It was a game completely. She shot it on what we call Lensbaby, so it is like that, with a dream -like quality with her. But when you communicate with the Slap bracelet and only say, “here, try it”, it’s just Ella Burnil, right? You cannot look away from what you do. Her face carries many different meanings and intensity – a little danger, but also a lot of “Come here”.

The man who also does not have eyes appear in this hallucinations sequence, and in this episode, we discovered the origins of the character while watching this terrifying ice cream. Why did you want to integrate this advertisement into the story instead of leaving the man who has no eye like this super nature?

Well, I would like to claim that just because we included an ice cream scene and the story of its origin, it does not necessarily mean that it is not normal. I think one of the show engines is to play constantly with the idea that something might be both – especially from the personal point of view. Thus we thought it was interesting to learn that Tissa had already forgotten that, when she was a child, she had seen this picture, and this picture was chasing her when her grandmother died, but she was somewhat suppressed. I completely forgot this, even with Van, and you see it on TV. Now they go and search for meaning, because the entire width also focuses on identifying the wrong patterns. In other words, when you suffer from this type of shock, you are looking for explanations, but you do so retrunally. You want to place a meaningful template on your experiences. So it is somewhat desperate to do this, and thus, perhaps distort the truth. So with this idea, then we decided to put the man who has no eye in the hallucinations sequence, as if we say that whatever this illusion, all that is a symbol of this fake, is in fact turning on all the psychology of girls, not just Taisa, by Link.

This season, the trees were screaming, as they were called, a great element so far. Why do you want to integrate this particular sound in this season? Does this sound mean that the show tends more towards the supernatural?

I cannot tell you the accurate answer to that, because you will approach a lot to answer if you see the rest of the season. But the sound design is an absolute necessity for us. It is like a olfactory as well. We cannot smell when you watch TV, but this is the most memory of your most impartial feeling. The sound is also intense, so we play with it. I don’t know if you have noticed, but when the man who has no eye passes with his strip, go to the wheel of the cart. Sonic design, like, your head explodes, as if the saying was that this is the most terrifying part of the potential sequence – just the uncertainty in what is happening. It is filled with this emotional response, contrary to the logical response directly. On an equal footing, screaming trees occur, and I would like to argue, objectively, but on an equal and possibly self -self -self, and how they explain them more really important than whether they are loud or not loudly in any specific person in anything. A moment. This is how they explain in the story what they hear.

In the current schedule, Lottie Callie gives the heart necklace, and tells Shona, “This does not mean you never think it means it.” Was that real?

I don’t want to blow the end of the season, so I must be very careful. But I will tell you, at that moment, my Lotty I deliberately on Cali because of what you are thinking.

Lottie and Callie danced and singing alongside your “Make Your Make” to the Elliot Cup, which is used famous in many scenes in “Lost”. I’m sure you heard a lot of comparisons between the two shows. Was it supposed to raise the scene of the famous cellar from “Lost”?

Perhaps this will not believe, but the difficult and quick answer is, no, we did not do that. I hope that ASH and Bart will not have this idea and do not tell me, but we chose it because we thought it was ideal for the scene. We did not mean to link that moment in “Lost”, but now everyone talks about it. I hope this is a good honor. We thought it was fun at the moment, and she got the way Callie and Lottie were associated at that time.

In another scene, Van and Tissa sees a wolf with a dead rabbit in his mouth. Rabbits were a frequent part of this width, especially with regard to Jackie. What is the intention to include a rabbit at that moment?

It is actually returning to the pilot, when you kill the rabbit shhona with the shovel. There is something about the experiences of these people that prompted them to admire blood leakage, and the blood leakage is very talisman for them and a kind of meaning. It is almost like terrible periods, although it is terrible. It is like doing that means something. Thus, when Tai and Van see the blood rabbit with the blood that dripping down, they have a diet that the blood leakage may be necessary for their storytelling line to move forward in some way, and that “the matter” wants more – meaning, we are. ”

This interview has been edited and intensified.