[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 3, “Digestif.”]
“I didn’t have to do a whole lot of acting honestly. It was pretty scary,” Steven Krueger confesses about the scene in episode a few exactly where his character, Mentor Ben Scott, hallucinates that a single of the Yellowjackets (Mya Lowe) is foaming at the mouth and making ready to take in him.
That incredibly state of affairs is what enthusiasts of the thriller have been anticipating with dread because Mentor selected not to partake in the team feast on Jackie. Relaxation uncomplicated, Ben enthusiasts. Krueger joined our The Buzz on Yellowjackets aftershow and disclosed that the nightmare will not turn out to be truth at any time before long. Alternatively, tonight was a crucial turning position in his character’s intriguing time-very long arc.
“He’s ostracized, pushed aside as an authority figure. Now he’s left to his own devices. A lot of times that means his own psyche, which can be your own worst enemy. Once his identity as coach and protector is stripped away, what does he have left? It leaves a raw mess of a person who doesn’t know who he is. That ends up having some pretty dire consequences,” Krueger reveals. “As we get beyond Episode 3, you start to see more and more of what Ben is going through in his own mind and how that connects with the past that he left behind.”
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The flashbacks to Ben’s pre-crash lifetime with boyfriend Paul had been a thing Krueger was content to see in the script. The actor did plenty of exploration to get into the headspace of what it was like to be a homosexual trainer in the 1990s. “One of the matters that trapped out was: not only am I a closeted homosexual gentleman, I’m [also] a trainer. What did that necessarily mean in that time period of time? Why was it these a top secret? The rationale: my lifetime and profession would have been around if this was disclosed. The legal guidelines in New Jersey…they did not move a legislation until eventually significantly afterwards that would have shielded me as a homosexual trainer. I simply would have been fired and possibly prosecuted.”
Test out the online video to listen to additional intriguing facts about how that hallucination sequence was shot, additional from Krueger about acquiring into character (and acquiring all around established on crutches) as well as what is following in Coach’s friendship with Natalie (Sophie Thatcher), the a single Yellowjacket who would seem to “get” him.
“He spends a lot of this season realizing he can’t trust any of these girls, as much as he would like to,” the actor states. “A lot of his story is seeing him come to that realization, and grapple with what that means.” Could there be an antler king?
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