For 2 years, Yellowjackets followers have been ready for the promised "bonus episode" that co-creator Ashley Lyle confirmed in 2023. The next yr, Lyle told Entertainment Weekly that followers must "wait a bit longer" to see it. And it's not simply followers who’re ready.

Throughout an interview with EW's The Awardist podcast, Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey confirmed that her husband, Matlock star Jason Ritter, filmed an episode of the Showtime drama that has but to air. The subject arose throughout a dialog about Ritter's viral "the arugula's gone unhealthy" TikTok video.

"I believed it was so humorous. He was in our rental home in Vancouver," says Lynskey, who performs Shauna Sadecki on the Emmy-nominated drama sequence. "We had been staying there for Yellowjackets — or perhaps it was when he was doing his episode, and I used to be doing one thing else. His misplaced episode, misplaced to time or no matter."

When pressed for extra details about Ritter's position within the episode, Lynskey demurs. "He was in an episode of Yellowjackets that didn’t air… I’m positively not allowed to say [who he played]. It was a standalone episode."

A consultant for Showtime had no remark. For now, we'll simply have so as to add it to the record of Yellowjackets mysteries.

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As for her Ritter's hilarious arugula video — when you haven't seen it, deal with your self under — Lynskey says her husband's retch-filled response to the rotten greens was 100% actual.

"He has such a powerful gag reflex. He can't scent something unhealthy. He simply immediately nearly vomits at something. I'm identical to, 'Are you okay?' It's not regular to have such a response," she says. "It's very real. He's not pretending. That's how he reacts.”

In actual fact, she goes on to inform a hilarious story about when she and Ritter had been first relationship and he or she unintentionally stepped in canine poop. Her future husband didn’t deal with it effectively. "He was so dramatic about it," she remembers with amusing. You may hear the entire story from Lynskey — and study what she hopes to see in Yellowjackets season 4 — within the full Awardist podcast interview under. (The interview begins at 19:30).

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