Ever since Yellowjackets premiered in November 2021, Liv Hewson has been in a state of shock. “It’s pretty bananas,” they exclaim over Zoom. Seated cross-legged on their living floor between a blue-green couch and a coffee table, Hewson is trying to stay grounded — literally — and process it all.
It makes sense: For months, the Showtime coming-of-age survival drama, which follows a high school girls’ soccer team stranded in the wilderness following a traumatic plane crash, was the only thing anyone could talk about. But before that, Hewson had been in limbo with the show for nearly two years. The pilot was first filmed at the end of 2019, but the season wasn’t fully shot and released until 2021. In-between, the pandemic happened.
