How Filming Fallout Led To Ella Purnell Being Surprised By Her Own Burnt Corpse On Yellowjackets: 'It Was Weird'
Someone cue the Yellowjackets theme song.
Actress Ella Purnell has been super busy lately, thanks to her role in acclaimed streaming series like Fallout (which is available with an Amazon Prime subscription) and Showtime's Yellowjackets. There was some overlap in filming the two shows, which led to Purnell being surprised by her own burnt corpse on Yellowjackets. And as she put it "it was weird."
Fans are currently waiting for Fallout Season 2, as well as Yellowjackets Season 3. The latter series saw the titular soccer team finally result to cannibalism while surviving in the wilderness, and the scene where they chowed down on Punell's Jackie was a wild one. It even shocked the actress herself, who spoke at Fan Expo about her reaction to the edible replica of her burnt corpse. In her words:
While Yellowjackets fans would kill for a chance to read scripts, Ella Purnell was simply too busy working on Fallout to keep up with the pages for Season 2. She had a huge role in the video game adaptation, so who can blame her? Unfortunately that meant she was caught off guard when Jackie became food for the rest of the cast.
Unfortunately, Ella Purnell being behind on Yellowjackets Season 2 scripts led her to be confronted by a prop of her burnt corpse. Purnell's Jackie returned as a ghost, but it was seeing what her character's burnt body looked like that was particularly disturbing. As she shared:
Talk about a shock. And even if Purnell was keeping up on exactly when Jackie was going to end up being eaten, seeing her character's dead body still likely would have been quite off putting.
It remains to be seen if Jackie gets to appear in Season 3, but her presence will likely continue looming over the show regardless. For her part, Ella Purnell hasn't watched the episode where her co-stars eat her, as she explained:
Understandable. Of course, Purnell's gig as Lucy in Fallout also has plenty of disturbing imagery. I mean, there was a whole plot revolving around a severed head. Still, being greeted by photos of your own corpse first thing in the morning is understandably weird.
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