Hilary Swank Has Joined the Cast of “Yellowjackets” Season 3

The third season of “Yellowjackets” is expected to arrive on Paramount+ With Showtime next year, and Deadline reports today that Oscar winner Hilary Swank has joined the cast.

Deadline reports, “The two-time Oscar winner will be a recurring guest star on the upcoming season, which is currently filming in Vancouver. I hear there is an option for her to become a series regular should the hit series get a fourth season.”

The outlet goes on to speculate, “Details about Swank’s character, which will be introduced later in the season, have not been revealed. Based on the setup of the show, she could conceivably be playing the contemporary, adult version of a teen on the soccer team whose story has not been fully explored yet.”

Joel McHale (Becky) recently joined the “Yellowjackets” Season 3 cast as well.

Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson created the hit series, while Jonathan Lisco is the showrunner.

“Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over.”

The show’s cast includes Melanie Lynskey (“The Last of Us”), Tawny Cypress (Inez & Doug & Kira), Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers), Christina Ricci (“Wednesday”), Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), Lauren Ambrose (“Servant”) and Simone Kessell (“Obi-Wan”).