Last Frontier’s Simon Kessel talks about joining a crash show after the Yellow Vests

Yellow vests alum Simone Kessel He doesn’t join many shows that involve a plane crash in Canada on purpose – it happens all the time.

During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly“Originally I was like, ‘What’s up with Canada?'” Kessel, 50, joked about the apparent connection between the Showtime series and her new Apple TV+ series The Last Frontier. In addition to the plane crash and the wilderness.

Kessel did He leaned into the shell.

“I’ve had people on social media saying, ‘Hey, don’t get on a plane with Simone.’ I know this is very funny. She indicated that I was not on the plane (in this plane). “There are definitely similarities.”

She continued: “But this movie is more of an action thriller. And I think I have a sense of reason perhaps as well – unlike the beautiful Lottie from Yellowjackets. So in that sense, it’s completely different once we get into it.”

Yellow vestswhich premiered in 2021, It follows a high school girls’ soccer team Who ends up in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash. The survivors do not return home for 19 months, during which time they are driven to cannibalism. Yellowjackets also features a present-day timeline that reintroduces the survivors more than two decades later.

Kessel joined the hit series in season two as adult Lottie. Who was killed In the March episode. And now she’s starring alongside her Jason Clarke, Dominic Cooper and Haley Bennett in The last frontier.

The Apple TV+ series premiered on Friday, October 10, introducing fans to US Marshal Frank (Clark) on the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska, who must protect his city while investigating a plane crash that led to several fugitives, now on the loose.

For her part, Kessel plays Frank’s nurse and wife, but Sarah is more of a stay-at-home wife.

“It’s very important that you don’t play the anxious stay-at-home wife. As the character unfolds, she carries her own trauma, which we find out later in the season. Something terrible has happened to her as a family unit,” she joked. “I didn’t want to play the candy-coated, candy-coated wife that we saw over and over again. For me, it was very important that the relationship between Frank and Sarah be ugly and honest and heartbreaking and shocking.”

After reading the script, Kessel I knew she wanted to role, adding: “Also on the page, it was never written that way, which is why I was so fascinated with playing Sarah. But she could have easily gone, ‘Please don’t go to work, Frank.’ “I’m worried about you.” But that was never the case.

Kessel went on to praise the show for showing the highs, lows and all the in-between moments that create a real marriage.

“I’ve seen a lot of fake husband-wife relationships. But this isn’t Sarah — that’s what I love about her. I wanted to make sure Sarah was real and that I played her incredibly realistically.” “Obviously I was in good hands with the amazing director, writers and producers.”

She continued, “But also working with Jason day in and day out was so exciting. We’re such dear friends that we can bicker, we can get mad at each other and we can correct each other. If he drops a line or I drop a line in a scene, I correct him or he’ll correct me. It’s real and it plays out on screen. I also think that relationship is essential to the craziness of the world. Every time we see them, it’s “The calm, the calm before the storm.”

New episodes of The last frontier Streaming Fridays on Apple TV+.