Whereas “Yellowjackets” stars and followers alike have been unhappy to see Coach Ben Scott die in Season 3, Steven Krueger stated his homicide was “necessary” for the present’s future.
Krueger, 35, who performed the soccer staff’s self-aware mentor, sat down with The Put up to debate his ideas on his character’s dying, revealing he knew Coach Ben’s destiny lengthy earlier than they began filming the newest season.
“They [the showrunners] said, ‘Hey, this season is going to be the end for Coach Ben,’ which I kind of had an inkling. We had discussed it kind of informally at the very beginning of the show,” he defined to The Put up. “So, I kind of knew Season 3 was like about the time range.”
In Episode 6, viewers watched as teen Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) kills Coach Ben behind her teammates’ backs after the “Yellowjackets” turned on him.
The kids held him hostage and minimize his Achilles tendon so he couldn’t escape after they discovered him responsible of burning down the cabin they have been staying in following their airplane crash.
After repeatedly pleading with Natalie to finish his life, she did, leading to her being dethroned because the chief of the group. Coach Ben’s corpse was then beheaded, cooked and eaten by the group — poetic justice for his character, Krueger stated.
“This is really poetic. It’s like a strong hero’s death in a way,” the star instructed The Put up. “The second thing is, it’s really, really necessary because, truthfully, the rest of the story needs this death to happen for, like any of this, to continue.”
Krueger shared that Coach Ben’s dying was a “chain reaction” that in the end “sets off everything else down the road.”
He pointed to the frog scientists and their wilderness information — Hanna (Ashley Sutton), Edwin (Nelson Franklin) and Kody (Joel McHale), respectively — being captured and two-thirds of them being brutally murdered after witnessing Coach Ben’s bloody head on a stake.
“I don’t think that any of that would have taken place if Coach Ben was still alive,” Krueger defined. “If they knew in the back of their heads that they didn’t have to answer for this guy’s head being on a stake right here. I think this all would have gone down very, very differently.”
Whereas Krueger appreciated his co-stars telling The Put up that his dying was the toughest for them to come back to phrases with this season, which noticed many fundamental characters meet their demise, the actor appreciated understanding that his time on the present was ending upfront.
“I’ve never been given like the courtesy of being told well, in advance, you know,” stated Krueger, who has additionally starred on reveals like “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Originals” and “Roswell, New Mexico.”
“This was like 4 months before we ever started filming, so truly everything was done in such a kind way, and it allowed me to kind of also prepare for exactly what I needed to do for kind of the overall arc of the season.”
When requested if he would change something about the way in which Coach Ben was taken out, Krueger responded, “Honestly, I think, for the way that the story went, this is exactly what I would have wanted. I love the idea that this death was like a mercy kill. And yet it still was probably not the right thing to do.”
He then joked that he would have clearly most popular his character keep alive.
“Let’s make Coach Ben alive in the future, and maybe he gets taken out by by Shauna or one of the other ladies in the future,” Krueger teased. “I think there was like a lot of fun story stuff there, but at the same time it’s hard to complain because I really do feel like it was a beautiful story. You know there’s not a lot of qualms that I have with the way that the story turned out.”
At a finale occasion final month, a number of of Krueger’s “Yellowjackets” co-stars instructed The Put up completely that the group “bawled our eyes out” once they needed to say goodbye to this character and their real-life buddy.
Nonetheless, the actor stated that he’s nonetheless shut with a number of of his former colleagues.
“I have a very close relationship with both Sophie Nelisse (teen Shauna) and Courtney Eaton (teen Lottie). We have a little group chat, and we connect all the time,” he stated, including, “All of us like to cook dinner, so we randomly ship one another, like little recipes.
Coach Scott wasn’t the one authentic character to lose his life this season.
The murders of grownup Lottie (Simone Kessell) and grownup Van (Lauren Ambrose) have been additionally onerous for followers to digest. Kessell’s character takes a nasty tumble down the steps after an unlikely killer pushes her to her dying, and Ambrose’s Van is brutally stabbed within the coronary heart.
The ten-episode thriller jumps between the teenager soccer staff’s 1996 airplane crash and the survivors within the current day, which embody stars Melanie Lynskey (grownup Shauna), Christina Ricci (grownup Misty), Tawny Cypress (grownup Tai) and Oscar winner Hilary Swank (grownup Melissa).
“Yellowjackets” Season 3 is now out there to stream on Paramount+ with Showtime.
