Melanie Lynskey is dropping some hints about what’s ahead for the upcoming season of Yellowjackets.
22.04.2022 - 20:03 / variety.com
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaKatrina Lenk huddles over a cup of coffee on one of those makeshift sidewalk eating areas that have become a staple of New York City pandemic life. It’s chilly afternoon, but the actor, who recently recovered from a bout of COVID that forced her to miss several performances of the Broadway revival of “Company,” isn’t taking any chances. She’d prefer we meet outside, a concession to the stringent protocols that are in place to try (and often fail) to keep shows like “Company” free from the virus.But Lenk isn’t shivering outside a Le Pain Quotidien in order to talk up her latest stage success.
Rather, she’s here to dish on her role on “Ozark” as Claire Shaw, a morally compromised pharmaceutical CEO. On the Netflix series, Shaw becomes drawn into the orbit of Marty and Wendy Byrde, the money laundering couple at the center of the show. They want to join forces to launch a legitimate charitable foundation, and they’re offering Shaw access to their contacts in the cartel world in order to her with a link to cheaper, albeit illegal, supplies for the drugs she manufactures.
It’s a Faustian bargain that probably won’t end well, but Lenk isn’t spilling any secrets. She insists that “Ozark” fans will have to wait until the second and final half of the show’s last season starts streaming on April 29. How did you join “Ozark”?In the middle of lockdown, there were a couple of Zoom auditions that came out of the blue.
I’ve been obsessed with the show and was such a huge fan that I never thought they were going to let me on. But I was intrigued. They told me that Claire was going to be stepping into her brother’s shoes as the head of this pharmaceutical company and there was some scandal
.Melanie Lynskey is dropping some hints about what’s ahead for the upcoming season of Yellowjackets.
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Taking it too far! Melanie Lynskey has heard all the fan theories about her hit show Yellowjackets — and she is officially overwhelmed.
NEW YORK -- From joking on the “Ozark” set with Jason Bateman, to getting show notes from Stephen Sondheim, Katrina Lenk’s career has hit a sweet spot.The actor is in the enviable position of starring in the popular Netflix show and the hit Broadway musical “Company” simultaneously. Lenk plays Clare Shaw, the head of a family-owned pharmaceutical company with some shady dealings on “Ozark,” which begins airing the last seven episodes of the series April 29.Lenk said shooting the final season of “Ozark” took an entire year due to pandemic delays, but she was grateful to have a job when Broadway shut down.
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