“That experience is just so defining.”
Lauren Ambroseknew she had to find a way to be onYellowjackets.
“I had watched season 1 and loved it,” theSix Feet Underactress tells EW.
Lauren Ambrose as Van on ‘Yellowjackets’.Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME
“I was like, ‘Why can’t I be on this show?!'”
(She barely survivedthat wolf attack.)
Once Van’s fate was sealed, the writers instantly thought of Ambrose for the role.
“I think I manifested it,” Ambrose says with a laugh.
She’s just taken a different path in terms of dealing with it."
For Ambrose, the simplest way to put it is that Van is stuck.
“I think they all are, in a sense, stuck in the trauma,” she says.
“That experience is just so defining.”
And in more ways than one.
Putting the survival elements aside, 19 months in the woods weren’tallbad.
For Van and Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown), it was the place where they fell in love.
“They loved each other so deeply,” Ambrose says.
We’re carved in each other’s hearts."
