According to Variety, Lauren Ambrose (“Handmaid”) has joined the cast of Season 2 of the ‘Yellowjackets’ series.
The actress will play the adult version of Van. The teenage version of the character was played by Liv Hewson, who will also return as part of the regular cast in the next cycle.
Vanessa “Van” Palmer was a member of the WHS Yellowjackets, one of the plane crash survivors. The character was savagely mauled by wolves in the first season, but managed to survive. During the experiment, Van and Taissa fell in love, and their fates remained uncertain at the end of the first cycle.
The news reveals that the character ended up surviving.
Filming for Season 2 will begin this month in Vancouver.
Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), the series is described as a mix of “epic survival, psychological horror and drama”.
A team of talented students become unlikely survivors of a plane crash that crashes in a remote and isolated area. As we follow their survival journey, we see the life they attempt to rebuild 25 years after the event, proving that the past is never left behind.
The cast also includes Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress and Juliette Lewis.