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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Yellowjacket’s Melanie Lynskey Thinks Female Villains Need to Be Embraced · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Melanie Lynskey plays the adult version of Shauna on Yellowjackets,
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  Speaker 2: a character that harbors some pretty dark secrets from her
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  Speaker 2: teenage years to say the least, and even in present day,
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  Speaker 2: Shauna makes a lot of decisions that aren't violent and
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  Speaker 2: even just plain mean, leading to criticism. But Melanie tells
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  Speaker 2: Variety she thinks it's because a double standard is out
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  Speaker 2: there that fans and critics have for female characters. She says,
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  Speaker 2: I know Shauna is kind of a tyrant, but the
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  Speaker 2: loss that she suffered is really intense. People are just
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  Speaker 2: quick to judge. The way people talk about women and
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  Speaker 2: men has been very interesting because people delight in men
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  Speaker 2: as villains, but especially when a woman is a mother,
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  Speaker 2: there's this other set of expectations.
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  Speaker 3: People complain she's not even a very good mother. Well
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  Speaker 3: guess what. Some people aren't.
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  Speaker 2: People need things to be black or white. It's been
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  Speaker 2: interesting to see. That's Melanie Lynsky on the devil's standard
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  Speaker 2: held of her villainous female characters. Season three of Yellow
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  Speaker 2: Jackets is on Showtime on Paramount Plus.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.