How Christina Ricci Prepared For Her Role In “Yellowjackets” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

the success of Yellow Jackets is got to. be quite satisfying because what I've. noticed as I move along and I'm uh much. farther along uh in my on my path is. that as I get older, I appreciate and. enjoy things more. Getting to doing this. podcast or whatever any any gig that I. have, I kind of appreciate it. Um, you. know, it it has getting to do the show.

for Max or hosting the Oscars, it just. feels like, oh, I'm I think I would. have I would have been so anxious and. neurotic about it at a younger age, but. now when nice things come. along, I can I can appreciate it more. Do you have that with like yellow. jackets? I do. I really do. And you know. I I was you know I had like sort of my. big moment in my 20s and went to all the. award shows and all the stuff and and.

then that sort of stopped and I didn't. really work that much for a while and. then this yellow jacket thing happened. and then all of a sudden we were going. to award shows again and all this stuff. and it was so interesting because this. time I could just be like oh my god I. love that guy. Hey, I'm Christina. And. like just be really open and easy and. fun and like I you know, it just it was. um I like you said like I wasn't uh I. wasn't so self-conscious and I wasn't so. worried about everything. I didn't take. myself as seriously as I used to. And uh.

and so it's it's actually you're it has. been really really fun. There's this. quote one of the BeeGees said second. fame is so much better. And I guess the. BG stories which I didn't which I didn't. even really know. There's an amazing. documentary about them and I didn't. really know much about them at all, but. it's a fantastic documentary and I. didn't realize they were huge pop stars. in the 60s and then it soured it like. anything. It the time passed and then. they're trying to figure it out and.

they're buming around and they're. completely out of it and they're they're. once was and then they reconstitute and. become this 70s juggernaut phenomenon. one of the biggest groups of the 70s, if. not the biggest. And they were like, "Oh, it's just much more pleasant the. second time around. because we know what that is." Mhm. And. uh so now it can be more about, as you. said, you can go to these shows and not. be neurotic and freaked out and just.

enjoy. It's also feels so different now, too. Like just Hollywood in general. feels different. Everybody just seems. like happy to be there in a way that. wasn't like that in the early 2000s. Um. everything felt so serious then and um. about like power and position and. ambition and it was really serious. Um. and now it just feels like people. actually celebrate at these award shows. and are like happy to see each other and.

there's enough room for everybody. And I. feel like it was so much smaller before. that it didn't feel like there was. enough room for everybody. And um yeah, it just has like a much nicer feeling I. think in general. Something too about. maybe the fact that the business has. changed so much. Yeah. When I came up, when you came up, uh which but still. we're talking about a limited number of. networks. There's no streaming. Yeah. And. now if you've got a good idea, there's a.

good chance you can get it out there. somewhere. I mean, even the natures of. movies has changed where it doesn't have. it's not the giant blockbuster. And. there's a plus and minus to that that's. that's at the award shows, but there is. less of a feeling of it's a small club. that's a few people are allowed into. So. many people can have a great idea, get. it on YouTube, get it out there. if. they've got talent and ability, they can. find a streamer. They can find a way to. get their vision made and it just feels.

a little more user friendly now. Yes. It's a It's softer and gentler and um. it's less desperate. Yeah. Unless you. want to shoot in Los Angeles. Well, then. I mean honestly, that's getting weird. I don't actually. know how anyone makes that happen. It's. really getting I mean not to take it. things down but that is a big change. that's happened is people will shoot. something that takes place in Los. Angeles on Hollywood and Vine and.

they'll go up to Nova Scotia to shoot it. and recreate Hollywood Vine and put your. star I'm sorry I will not allow that you. do not they moved it they moved it an. hour ago they moved it an hour ago my. foot down without telling you either. shoot in LA or. that's the kind of power I've gotten. this time. Star in your movie. Um, what's it like? Cuz with Yellow Jackets, you have this interesting thing where. your your character Misty, you're. playing as an adult, but also there's an.

there's an actress uh who's playing you. as a child or a not a I shouldn't say. child, but as a teenager. Yeah. As a. kid. To me, at 85, it still seems like. child cuz I'm doing that thing where I. want to say I'm 85 now just to get used. to it. Yeah, I've already started. I'm. going as far as 87. So, anytime I can't. work anything, I'm like anytime I can't. work anything, I'm like, well, I'm. basically 87 when it comes to. technology. And the more I say it, like. the more I'm feeling more comfortable. I. love that you're 2 years older than me.

I love I'm older than you. Um, is it. Sammy Henry? Is that the actress who. plays you? And it's interesting. I don't. know how much do you have communication. with the actress who plays younger you. to try and see if anything needs to line. up or is that overthinking it? Well, we. did in the very beginning. you know, we. shot the pilot and then co happened. So, it was about a almost a year and a half. later that we actually went to series. and um so she and I met up to discuss. We're really really different people. personalitywise. like it's surprising.

how different we are. And so we sort of. compared notes uh the different. performance notes that we've been given. because it was interesting to hear what. they wanted to correct or were worried. about because like you know she's a very. bubbly dynamic like charming sweet. person. And so to hear what they were. concerned was going to come out in her. performance was interesting to me. And. then to hear the what they were afraid I. was going to do was very interesting as. well. So like mine was all about like no.

she's charming and everyone loves her. and all she wants is love and she's. human and hers were like Kathy Bates for. misery and like you know what I mean? So. I it just was really funny. There's a there's a rumor that they put. her on depressants. We got to reach you up a little bit. We're putting you on a massive dose of. depressants. Yeah. they were like trying. to make me more adorable and her less. adorable and uh so so by doing that we.

got we could like we we both felt like. we understood like where the parameters. were for the character. Um but beyond. that we never really I'm very sensitive. about not being condescending. Like I. even have trouble complimenting people. because I feel like it's condescending. and um I don't I I guess I don't know. why but I just do. So anytime the idea. of like giving another actress. performance advice or notes to me just. sounds like really I'm overstepping my.

place. So we both have very we have our. own performances. And when you think. about it too 30 years like 30 years and. a lot of intense stuff has happened. 30. years of like squeezing and rejection. and pressure and trauma and all this. stuff. You're not going to be the same. exact person you were. Uh, so I think it. really does work out and the writing on. the show is really good and the. character is very consistent on the. page. Yeah. So it's kind of okay for any. kind of differences or variations in our.

performances.