Hilary Swank set to star in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3

“Yellowjackets” is getting a buzzy new star for Season 3. 

Two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Hilary Swank is joining the cast of the Paramount+ with Showtime thriller series in a recurring role in the upcoming season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details of her role are being kept under wraps, but THR reports that she’ll make her first appearance in the latter half of the season, which is in production now. 

Swank is not the only familiar face joining “Yellowjackets” for Season 3; Joel McHale (“Community”) is also joining the genre-bending thriller in a guest-starring role. They join an ensemble that includes Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton as teenage versions of the main characters in 1996, and Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Lauren Ambrose, and Simone Kessell as adult versions in the present. 

The series is set across two timelines, one in which the members of a girls’ soccer team try to survive in the wilderness after a plane crash, and one 25 years later where the ghosts of what happened out in the wilderness come back to haunt them. It’s a combination of a survival thriller, a conspiracy mystery, a character drama, and a dark comedy. 

“Yellowjackets” has been nominated for 10 Emmys throughout its run so far, including two nominations for Best Drama Series and two Best Actress nominations for Lynskey. 

Hilary Swank is best known for her award-winning performances in “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Million Dollar Baby.” She has recently been seen in the faith-based drama “Ordinary Angels” and the ABC series “Alaska Daily,” which ran for one season between 2022 and 2023.