Season 3 of Yellowjackets started airing last Friday, February 14. Is anybody watching it? I loved the first season so much that I watched it twice, but only made it a few episodes into the second season. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it, I just kinda fell off. Perhaps I’ll go back and catch up. I hear Hilary Swank is a cast member this season.
While doing promo for the new season, Christina Ricci popped up on The Tonight Show. She chatted about how important the character of Wednesday Adams is for young girls, how she got the part in the new Netflix Wednesday series, her two kids, Freddie, 10, and Cleopatra, three, and, of course, Yellowjackets. Cleo, who calls her mother “Christina,” sounds very feisty. Christina told a hilarious story about the time she showed her son Freddie Casperwhen he was preschool age. Let’s just say there was some confusion…
”I did show him Casper, way too young, which was a mistake. Casper’s totally safe for children, but I showed him when he was, like, two-and-a-half, three. And he loved it. And then, I was driving him to preschool one day and he was like, ‘Oh Mom, I told my teachers about your childhood.’ I was like, ‘…That I was famous?’ And he was like, ‘No, no, no, no. That you lived in that house with your dad and all those ghosts.’”
This is too funny and super adorable. This reminds me of Ashley Tisdale’s daughter thinking that Zac Efron was her daddy after watching the first High School Musical. I wonder what the teachers at Freddie’s school thought. They had to have known that he was confusing Casper with real-life, right? That’s a good story that Christina can tell at Freddie’s graduation party or wedding one day.
While we’re on the topic of ghosts (one of my fav topics), Christina was on Kelly Clarkson’s talk show last week and was asked if all of her spooky movies made her believe in the paranormal. Christina said she’s “open to it” and shared a story about shooting Prozac Nation in an old, defunct mental hospital in Vancouver. Apparently, it’s a very popular filming location and they’ve filmed scenes for Yellowjackets in it too. Anyway, Christina had to run upstairs to get something that she left behind and while she was headed back, she heard footsteps on the stairs. When she turned around, she saw black shoes walking down them. Creepy! And she’s filmed there more than once! If that’s such a popular filming location, I am dying to know if anyone has had a similar experience there.
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It’s called Riverview, and it’s an old mental institution that is known for being haunted. It’s about 45 minutes east of Vancouver, in an area called Coquitlam. (The serial killer Robert Pickton lived and murdered almost 50 women on a farm in Port Coquitlam, just down the road.)
There are tons of stories about it, and a lot of productions film there, and yet some of the buildings are still in use. I once drove thru the grounds to show my teen (who is now in film school), and he captured a disembodied, woman’s scream while I was driving. We heard it live as we were exiting, but the voice recording file corrupted upon our return home. I still get chills thinking about it.
I wish Ghost Adventures would do a special! It’s creepy af.
Ooooh thank you for all of this context!
Okay yeah that’s creepy. I would not want to be there alone.
Yellowjackets is B*TSH*T crazy. But i totally love it.
And season 3 promises to be more crazy than season 2.
I am enjoying the rage.
Though i wonder if a reckoning is coming for adult Misty over various horrific actions of teen Misty.
Aesthetically, and not the point of the show, is that Christina Ricci and Samantha Hanratty are both gorgeous, and a bad blond perm and glasses render them both as- not particularly attractive as their character Misty.
My mother worked at Riverview as a psychiatric nurse just out of nursing school. She shared some brutal stories about working back there in the 60s. They didn’t just treat people long-term; they also had an incoming stream of people affected by substance abuse because it was a secure facility. Apparently it was a very loud place to work.
It was a time when people literally left their family members, including children, there to die. I’m not sure that the deinstitutionalisation that’s happened since is a much better solution, though. But yeah, it makes sense that it’s hella haunted.
Woah, that is crazy! Thank you for the history!
Ashley, I can’t imagine the horrors your poor mother witnessed at Riverview as a young nurse. I bet she has some interesting stories, tho!
Just wanted to add “Woodlands” as a former psychiatric hospital for children in the same area, but on the New West side. It has a truly reprehensible past, so it was known to be quite haunted before they bulldozed it and built shiny new homes on the site. Regardless, I still don’t like driving past it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlands_(New_Westminster)
@Lou oh dear why would anyone want to live in Victoria Hill/Woodlands?
The old energies must linger though the building was demolished. A park would be ideal but I guess the land is too valuable $$$$$ to not develop into residential use.