Christina Ricci is featured in The Hollywood Reporter feature of their Emmys 2025 nominee wish list. Check out her interview below!

Christina Ricci
‘Yellowjackets’ (Showtime)

My favorite thing about my character: How wonderful she is at being alone. She is so used to being rejected and living alone that she is her own best friend and companion. She always entertains herself and keeps herself amused. She truly has fun and makes fun from nothing.

And the most frustrating thing: In past seasons, it has been her denial and desperation to be included by her “friends.” She has willfully ignored all of the insults and terrible things being said about her, and it’s been difficult emotionally to play. As an actor, you bring so much of yourself and get so mixed up emotionally with the character. One thing that has been great about that is that I remember, and have held on to, the hurt I felt as the character that I wasn’t able to express or react to each time. It’s been what I’ve used to build her base layer of rage and fuel the awakening and anger Misty finally experiences this season.

The scene that spiked my anxiety: I dreaded playing her drunk. I hate playing drunk anyway. It’s just my worst thing to have to act. Always feels more like you’re doing an impression rather than something as grounded as what you usually do in a performance. But I did it. We got through it.

The character in my?show that I’d most like to have?dinner with: Misty. I really do love her. And she’d have so much fun information on so many specific things.

The show I’d love to do a crossover episode with: I would very much like us to do a crossover with The Last of Us.