The Second Season of ‘Yellowjackets’ May Be Over, But Star Courtney Eaton Is Just Getting Started

It’s such a shocking season for Lottie; how did you feel when you first saw how her journey would unfold?

We’re kept in the dark a lot throughout the season and we kind of find out what’s happening when we get the script. I mean, a lot of us will do detective work and go to hair and makeup or to the writers and be like, “What can you tell me?” So it was kind of a fun surprise to see what happened in the finale. I had kind of guessed that the cabin was going burn down, but seeing what happened with Juliette [Lewis]’s character was kind of heartbreaking, because she’s part of the family. Hopefully she comes back and haunts us, because she’s just the best, and the themes and emotion she brought to the show are just kind of unmatched. We have so many deaths on the show that you don’t necessarily trust who’s going to be here and who’s not, and we have little parties to celebrate when our characters die. [Laughs.]

Are you a horror fan in your offscreen life?

Not really. I’m scared of them! Horror films are really big in American culture, but I grew up in Australia not watching a ton of films, because I’m from a smaller town and it would just be whatever was playing at the one theater in town. So I feel like I’m not as much of a film buff as I should be, and I’m just getting into horror now. My friends will come over and be like, “Okay, we have to watch this classic tonight.”

What’s next on the horizon for you, now that Season 2 of Yellowjackets is behind you?

We’ve been pretty nonstop with press and that kind of thing since the finale, so I’ve just been focusing on that. I’m working on some things right now, but obviously the writers’ strike is playing out and we’re trying to support that and give the writers whatever they need and just kind of take it as it comes. There are some exciting things coming up, though!

What do you tend to get up to when you’re not filming?

I love a good hike, which is so L.A. of me. I got into pottery while we were filming the second season; I’m just kind of relaxing and living life, because usually when we wrap a season we’re kind of shells of people, what with the long hours and the material we shoot. It’s nice to just take a break and catch up with my friends, because I don’t really see them six months out of the year.