The actor, who plays Natalie in the hit Showtime series that returns on Sunday, discusses her offbeat roles and how her attitude toward her career has evolved.
You were just 15 when you played the role of Audrey in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” How did you get into acting?I don’t come from academia or any kind of schooling. I was just always around artists. My dad [actor Geoffrey Lewis] and his friends, Karen Black and my mom, everybody being super pro-art, and then the sets — I grew up on them. They’re familiar stomping grounds … people in bloodied cowboy suits, laying there, sunning in the desert. Those are my earliest set memories.
From left, Christina Ricci as Misty, Juliette Lewis as Natalie, Tawny Cypress as Taissa and Melanie Lynskey as Shauna in a scene from the Season 1 finale of “Yellowjackets.”She was a good friend of my parents’. She was so instrumental in my becoming aware that I have a creative spark. It originated from these epic charades games we would play at her house with her kids and friends. And she just had so much enthusiasm for playing and make-believe. And my dad would do storytelling to music.
I assume it was hard to maintain that structure when you hit those high levels of fame in your late teensI was always like “The Girl” in these huge male-dominated movies, and that was fantastic for me, actually. I was given reverence and treated equally. I was really spoiled — I didn’t really know that. People said that at the time, “You’re going to be spoiled after working with Scorsese.” I didn’t know it was rare. But later I was always having to prove myself.
Juliette Lewis with Woody Harrelson in a scene from the 1994 film “Natural Born Killers.” She starred in successive hit movies early in her career.TV critic and true-crime buff Lorraine Ali selects the 50 best true-crime documentaries you can stream on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Prime Video and more. Given your early experiences, do you feel protective of the younger, female performers you work with on “Yellowjackets”Sophie [Thatcher, who plays teen Natalie], she’s so smart and different than I was. I mean, I was smart, but I was introverted at her age and didn’t know the machine. I didn’t know what it meant when I got nominated. It’s huge pressure. Had I known that you do press for the team, I might have been able to stomach it better.
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