Melanie Lynskey’s husband Jason Ritter will join her in Yellowjackets this season
Real-life couple Melanie Lynskey and Jason Ritter last starred together in the Hulu true-crime series Candy
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When Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey returns as Shauna in the series’ eagerly-awaited second season, it will mark a merging of work and home. Lynskey’s real-life husband Jason Ritter has joined the series’ cast as a guest star, per Variety. This is the second time the couple has worked together this year; they previously co-starred in the Hulu true-crime series Candy.
Details on Ritter’s role haven’t yet been disclosed, but Entertainment Weekly confirms he’ll appear in at least one episode of the drama, which follows a high school girls’ soccer team that spends 18 months stranded together in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash. The series jumps between 1996 and the present day, which finds the survivors— now grown adults— still grappling with what happened to them out there.
Ritter is the latest in a string of high-profile additions to the Yellowjackets gang. In August, Elijah Wood joined the cast in a season-long guest role, playing a “Citizen Detective” named Walter who reportedly stirs up some trouble for Christina Ricci’s character Misty. Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Simone Kessell also join the cast next season as adult Van and Lottie, respectively.
Speaking about her and Ritter’s time together on Candy earlier this year, Lynskey told Variety she enjoyed working with him and called her spouse a “wonderful actor and a really nice person.”
“When I came back to work, everyone was like, ‘Your husband is the nicest person!’ It makes me look smart, like I chose a great partner,” Lynskey shared at the time. “He’s so good, and it’s really fun to get to work with somebody who is creative and interesting and does something different every take, which is what he does.”
Yellowjackets returns to Showtime (and for streaming, Hulu) on Sunday, March 26, 2023.
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I cannot wait for this show to come back. The first season was superb and everything I could want from a show.
I wonder if Rekha Sharma is coming back
Lucky bastard…
Like, I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but also I hate him.
Yeah I’m sure you had a solid chance with Melanie before Jason swooped her up
I also am extremely jealous of Dipper Pine’s good marital fortunes. Lynskey is, and always has been, a smokeshow.
I’m sorry, but I will never understand how she chose him over Jimmi Simpson. But at least I might have a chance now…
Well, being attracted to neither man, I couldn’t tell you. I am glad that apparently Simpson and Lynskey are on as friendly terms as exes can be, though. Nice when people can act like adults.But at any rate, I wish you all the luck in winning Liam McPoyle’s hand! His sweaty, slippery hand… 😉
what, like she’s really hot or something? please
I sort of enjoy their storyline in the Clea DuVall-scripted The Intervention because (spoiler for an obscure indie movie) she turns down his proposal & breaks his heart, which makes it seem more like I have a shot with her
One of his scenes from Season 2 has already leaked:
https://www.tiktok.com/@jasonritter1980/video/7057255583535090991?lang=en
Wow! Didn’t even know about these 2 being a couple. I hope Jason finally gets to lead a series that isn’t cancelled. Sincerely, he’s awesome. I root for all the Ritters.
Gravity Falls tho
That show is Avatar: the Last Airbender-tier, and I will stand by that forever.
I hope the episode he’s in features some sort of comical misunderstanding. That would be nice.
Anybody remember The Event?