‘Yellowjackets’ Husband-and-Wife Duo Find Inspiration Inside Their Library Office, Their Favorite Room in the House
variety.comEmily Longeretta Ever since moving to L.A. in 2007, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have been writing at home. While they always pen episodes separately — “If I could be in a bunker deep underwater where no one in the world would know of my existence, that’s where I would go to write,” he says — the “Yellowjackets” showrunners come together in their study to talk through bigger ideas or any issues that need salvaging.While the pair have worked sporadically in an office over the years, they’ve mostly done their writing from their home, wherever that may be. (Early on, they had a small Hollywood apartment that forced them to write in the bedroom.) “I think the first script that we wrote here, we just sat at the dining room table across from each other, which seems so insane to me,” says Nickerson.
Now, they’ve found their groove and look forward to coming together in the library: “It’s just the place where I feel like we have accumulated the most Bart and Ashley-ness in the house,” Lyle says. “We recently shifted from our original book- shelves to a desk-bookshelf situation.”Personal Joys“The owl is something that Bart got for me on a trip to Italy, which was actually our very first, real trip together.
It was certainly our first overseas trip together, which is funny because I think we did that in 2014, so we had been together for about nine years at that point. … Prior to [‘The Originals’], when we first moved out here, Bart was bartending and I was tutoring and walking dogs for a living.
It sort of represents that first feeling of accomplishment. And then the squirrel, my best friend Allison and I moved out here together.
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