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Making Misty a Murderer: Christina Ricci Was Told Not to Do TV, Then She Found the Perfectly Flawed Character

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Christina Ricci read the “Yellowjackets” script for the first time, she was fascinated by one specific quality of Misty Quigley: Her pettiness.At the start, she wasn’t told much about the character’s arc in the Showtime survival drama.

She didn’t know that as a girl Misty was so desperate to be needed by her peers so after a plane crash, she chose to destroy the black box, which meant the girls were deserted for months.

Ricci didn’t know that, as an adult, Misty would keep a reporter prisoner in her basement and eventually, poison her with her own cigarette.All she knew was that Misty’s job was a hospice nurse and that she used that power to abuse the elderly — a concept that captivated Ricci. “To play a whole human being and get to explore a person that’s capable of that, for me, was really interesting,” she says, adding that the character has sociopathic characteristics. “There is probably a clinical diagnosis for her, but she’s just not educated enough.”For Ricci, it wasn’t about relating to Misty; in fact, that’s not necessarily important when she takes on a role.“I don’t believe that you need to relate to a person to find it interesting.

I don’t believe that today’s audience needs to relate to the story and to be fascinated by the story,” she says. “As women we’ve had to relate to men, these male stories about maleness that I haven’t related to but somehow, I was able to figure it out.”That said, Ricci became defensive of Misty in the beginning, especially when people mocked her.“I hated when everyone was like, ‘She’s so funny!’ I hated it the whole time.

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