This publish accommodates 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 way 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 and then hitchhiking with a giant rig driver, Tai winds up in a small city. And when she walks into the old-school video retailer, Van (performed by new solid member/Six Feet Under alum Lauren Ambrose) is standing behind the counter.
Naturally, we couldn’t wait to speak 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 sort of pretty in actual life). Read on for her ideas.
TVLINE | I primarily wished to speak to you as a result of I’m fearful about Taissa.
We’re all fearful about Taissa. [Laughs]
TVLINE | At the second, within the current, she’s clearly not OK. But how does she suppose issues are going?
She thinks issues are going fairly dangerous. [Laughs] I believe she acknowledges that she wants assist at this level so, you already know, that’s why she goes and finds Van. Because Van was the one which was capable of discuss to this different Tai so, hopefully we will get some solutions and she will be able to get some assist. You know, 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! But, you already know, she’s not likely into serving to herself. [Laughs]
TVLINE | It appears to me that Tai is somebody who’s turn into actually good at compartmentalizing over the course of her life.
Oh, completely.
TVLINE | That mentioned, do you suppose Van is somebody who she’s form of put away in her thoughts and her coronary heart? Or has she thought of her loads within the years between the crash and after they’re adults?
That’s a extremely 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 good as potential and she’s a narcissist so, she’s not simply fascinated with previous, previous relationships.
TVLINE | In the previous 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 by way of what’s taking place to her. Do you suppose, as an grownup, Tai is any extra open to exploring what’s happening?
I believe she desires to close it down and get again to her life. She’s been in restore mode, you already know? She’s making an attempt to restore her life, she desires to get again to her life and her child, and you already know, why can’t or not it’s good once more?
So, I positively don’t suppose she cares about like, determining who she is. She simply desires to do away with this different Tai. So far, what we’ve seen is that younger Taissa isn’t part of the [Lottie] group. But you already know, there’s 5 seasons so, it might change. Everything might change.
TVLINE | Right.
Who is aware of, you already know?
TVLINE | That is sensible. It additionally is sensible to me that, when the women are youngsters and ravenous, their positions on issues would possibly change actual fast, proper?
Yes. Exactly. I believe it’s completely pure to need to eat your useless good friend. [Laughs] I’d even say it’s pure to eat the child! [Laughs] But as we all know, they don’t eat the child.
TVLINE | Talk 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 happening there?
Yeah, it’s a complete prosthetic that goes over his face and eyes that like, makes that look. Yeah. But it seems to be actually pure. I can’t work out…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 loads.
TVLINE | I simply pictured you and him at, like, craft providers in between takes.
He loves it. I used to be like, “You need to go to conventions with this look, because this is going to get people 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 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 loads in Season 2. In reality, Taissa’s complete story doesn’t determine loads 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 happening together with her. But you already know, there’s loads of enjoyable shenanigans available this season between the women. But yeah. The man 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 remaining moments. How in charge of herself would you say Taissa is when she walks into that video store?
Oh, no. She has no management over it. In reality, 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 dangerous human being making an attempt to get her life again. It’s not understanding for her. But yeah, I believe Van has the primary management within the interactions between the 2 of them.
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