This publish incorporates spoilers from Season 2, Episode 4 of Yellowjackets. Proceed accordingly.
Taissa and Van see one another for the primary time in years on the finish of this week’s Yellowjackets, a reunion we’d be rather more enthusiastic about had a scary mirror model of Tai not been the one making the preparations.
After spending the hour having at the very least one sketchy blackout after which hitchhiking with an enormous rig driver, Tai winds up in a small city. And when she walks into the old-school video retailer, Van (performed by new forged member/Six Toes Below alum Lauren Ambrose) is standing behind the counter.
Naturally, we couldn’t wait to talk with Tawny Cypress about her character’s troubling trajectory, the state of issues between Tai and her former love, and the horrifying specter of the No Eyed Man (who apparently is kind of pretty in actual life). Learn on for her ideas.
TVLINE | I primarily needed to speak to you as a result of I’m fearful about Taissa.
We’re all fearful about Taissa. [Laughs]
TVLINE | In the meanwhile, within the current, she’s clearly not OK. However how does she assume issues are going?
She thinks issues are going fairly unhealthy. [Laughs] I believe she acknowledges that she wants assist at this level so, you realize, that’s why she goes and finds Van. As a result of Van was the one which was capable of speak to this different Tai so, hopefully we will get some solutions and she will be able to get some assist. You understand, she’s a really egocentric individual, inserting herself again into Van’s life, simply to get some assist for herself. That’s why she ought to see a therapist! However, you realize, she’s probably not into serving to herself. [Laughs]
TVLINE | It appears to me that Tai is somebody who’s turn out to be actually good at compartmentalizing over the course of her life.
Oh, completely.
TVLINE | That stated, do you assume Van is somebody who she’s type of put away in her thoughts and her coronary heart? Or has she thought of her rather a lot within the years between the crash and after they’re adults?
That’s a very good query. I believe that she has compartmentalized her, put her away in a field after they ended their relationship. She says what number of ladies she f–ked in faculty and all this different stuff. It didn’t even daybreak on her to attach with Van once more till the opposite Tai got here out and informed her to take action. Yeah. No, I believe she is an excessive amount of into making her life as excellent as attainable and he or she’s a narcissist so, she’s not simply excited about outdated, previous relationships.
TVLINE | Up to now timeline, we see that Van is somebody who’s somewhat extra open to Lottie and her spirituality, whereas Tai doesn’t need to have interaction with it when it comes to what’s taking place to her. Do you assume, as an grownup, Tai is any extra open to exploring what’s occurring?
I believe she desires to close it down and get again to her life. She’s been in restore mode, you realize? She’s making an attempt to restore her life, she desires to get again to her life and her child, and you realize, why can’t it’s excellent once more?
So, I undoubtedly don’t assume she cares about like, determining who she is. She simply desires to do away with this different Tai. Thus far, what we’ve seen is that younger Taissa isn’t part of the [Lottie] group. However you realize, there’s 5 seasons so, it might change. The whole lot might change.
TVLINE | Proper.
Who is aware of, you realize?
TVLINE | That is sensible. It additionally is sensible to me that, when the ladies are youngsters and ravenous, their positions on issues would possibly change actual fast, proper?
Sure. Precisely. I believe it’s completely pure to need to eat your useless buddy. [Laughs] I’d even say it’s pure to eat the infant! [Laughs] However as we all know, they don’t eat the infant.
TVLINE | Speak to me in regards to the man with no eyes, who scares the s—t out of me, fairly actually.
Me, too. I’ve seen him in actual life, and he’s simply as scary in actual life.
TVLINE | Please inform me about this. Are there prosthetics? What’s occurring there?
Yeah, it’s a whole prosthetic that goes over his face and eyes that like, makes that look. Yeah. However it appears to be like actually pure. I can’t determine…I don’t know, he says he can see so, I don’t know. He’s so tall and skinny, it’s loopy, and he’s in that swimsuit, that funeral swimsuit. It’s rather a lot.
TVLINE | I simply pictured you and him at, like, craft companies in between takes.
He loves it. I used to be like, “It is advisable go to conventions with this look, as a result of that is going to get folks going.” He loves it. [Editor’s note: Brody Romhanyi plays the No Eyed Man in Season 2. Brahm Taylor played him in Season 1.]
TVLINE | We all know that she noticed him as a toddler, which additionally was throughout a time of heightened emotion and grief. What are you able to tease about how a lot he’ll determine into the remainder of the season?
He’s not going to determine rather a lot in Season 2. The truth is, Taissa’s complete story doesn’t determine rather a lot in Season 2. You’re going to have to attend at the very least till Season 3 to get some actual solutions on what’s occurring along with her. However you realize, there’s loads of enjoyable shenanigans available this season between the ladies. However yeah. The person with no eyes, he’s a thriller to all of us at this level.
TVLINE | Tai spends most of Episode 4 in transit earlier than winding up at Van’s door within the last moments. How accountable for herself would you say Taissa is when she walks into that video store?
Oh, no. She has no management over it. The truth is, I believe for the remainder of the season she will get very, very reliant on Van, to the purpose the place she’s a shadow of herself. She has utterly misplaced management. She’s only a unhealthy human being making an attempt to get her life again. It’s not understanding for her. However yeah, I believe Van has the primary management within the interactions between the 2 of them.
