![]() ![]() She’s one of the most talked about stars in two of the most talked about shows – the are-they-aren’t-they cannibal thriller Yellowjackets, for which she won best actress at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards, and the post-apocalyptic zombie drama The Last of Us.īut if you looked closer, you’d see a 30-year career that started opposite Kate Winslet, when Lynskey was plucked from high school in 1994 to star in Peter Jackson’s psycho-thriller Heavenly Creatures. ![]() That last part sums up Lynskey perfectly. “What if she’s actually trying to come to terms with a lot of shit and is going crazy? People contain multitudes and I love the idea of appearing to be one thing to people who don’t bother to look any further.” Lynskey won a Critics’ Choice Television Award for her performance as Shauna Shipman in Yellowjackets. And it’s fun to just be like, ‘But what if she’s not?’ What if she’s none of these things? What if she’s actually scary and murderous? “People want to classify someone who looks like me as kindly, loving, mumsy. “It’s empowering for other women to be able to watch something and go, ‘Oh, gosh, you don’t know what she’s going to do, what she’s capable of,’ ” says Lynskey. In other words, don’t mess with a woman in her 40s who has secrets to hold, a complicated marriage and not enough time to get everything done. In her two most recent roles, the 45-year-old has put an electric carving knife to inventive use, while in another she has casually shot a prisoner and ordered the militia under her control to “burn the bodies, it’s faster”. In fact, your safest option would probably be to cross the road. If you believed everything you saw on TV - which you definitely should not - you wouldn’t want to mess with Melanie Lynskey. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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