Melanie Lynskey reveals how two 'Yellowjackets' Season 3 deaths were 'really surprising' to her

With the final episode of Yellowjackets now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime, Melanie Lynskey recently shared her feelings on losing co-stars Simone Kessell and Lauren Ambrose after their adult characters were killed off the series. 

"I adore both of those characters, and I adore both of those women. I don’t have favorites, but we were super close. So they both told me themselves," she told Variety. "The writers didn’t tell me that that was happening, and it was hard. It was not what anyone expected. I didn’t think they would be gone so quickly. There was a lot of processing that and listening to how they felt about it, and I felt a certain way about it. Obviously, I’m not in the writers’ room.

"I think people have an idea that they’ve mapped out the entire series arc for me, and they very much haven’t. Season 1, I got told in great detail what was going to happen. That was kind of all I needed to hear at that point. I was like, 'OK, they really have a plan.' Then they said, 'Season 2 is gonna focus on this. Season 3, we think this is going to happen.' It was very vague for the rest of it. I just needed to know that they actually had a plan, not just, like, a cool pilot. So I don’t know where the story is going. I have no idea. After this season, I have less of an idea," she continued to explain, "But both of those were really surprising to me. I wish we had more time. I trust the writers, I trust what they’re doing, but I would have loved to have had more scenes with Simone and more scenes with Lauren."

As for the most emotionally difficult scenes to film, she pointed to the last time she got to work with each of them, which supports what Kessell told EW. 

"Melanie and I have cried a few times together. We're such close friends. Working together is just everything to us both. I don't understand. But look, on this show, I guess people are going to die, right? So people die. I just didn't see it coming," she admitted.

Adult Lottie is murdered in the fourth episode of the season. We later discover in the finale that Shauna's daughter Callie pushed her down the basement stairs, but it was not her intent to kill her.