Simone Kessell's guest appearances

Simone Kessell

Collider Ladies Night & Collider Forces

The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin

Under The Gloss with Phoebe Burgess

TV Central: One on One Podcast

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As the role of present-day Lottie demands, Simone Kessell made a huge impression on Yellowjackets in her debut season.Season 1 introduced the 1996 version of the character played by Courtney Eaton, but viewers were left wondering whether Lottie would make it through the wilderness ordeal alive until Kessell’s casting was announced between seasons. Ultimately, present-day Lottie becomes a significant driving force of the show. She’s the one who encouraged the Yellowjackets to start listening to the wilderness and respect its voice in the past, and now she’s pursuing similar ambitions but on a larger scale via her very own wellness compound.At the start of Season 2, Lottie isn’t preaching about the power of the wilderness but rather, offering activities and sermons that encourage “turning suffering into strength so we can live as our best selves.” Lottie starts the season sound and steady with confidence and authority, but as more surviving Yellowjackets arrive at the compound, the more Lottie starts to lose herself to the trauma she was subjected to in the wilderness.With Yellowjackets in the spotlight courtesy of a significant amount of well-deserved Emmy season hype, Kessell took the time to join me for a Collider Ladies Night conversation to recap her journey playing Lottie thus far, including her heartbreaking downward spiral. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the role of present-day Lottie demands, Simone Kessell made a huge impression on <a href="https://collider.com/tag/yellowjackets/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Yellowjackets</a> in her debut season.Season 1 introduced the 1996 version of the character played by Courtney Eaton, but viewers were left wondering whether Lottie would make it through the wilderness ordeal alive until <a href="https://collider.com/yellowjackets-season-2-cast-simone-kessell-adult-lottie/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Kessell’s casting was announced</a> between seasons. Ultimately, present-day Lottie becomes a significant driving force of the show. She’s the one who encouraged the Yellowjackets to start listening to the wilderness and respect its voice in the past, and now she’s pursuing similar ambitions but on a larger scale via her very own wellness compound.At the start of Season 2, Lottie isn’t preaching about the power of the wilderness but rather, offering activities and sermons that encourage “turning suffering into strength so we can live as our best selves.” Lottie starts the season sound and steady with confidence and authority, but as more surviving Yellowjackets arrive at the compound, the more Lottie starts to lose herself to the trauma she was subjected to in the wilderness.With Yellowjackets in the spotlight courtesy of a significant amount of well-deserved Emmy season hype, Kessell took the time to join me for a <a href="https://collider.com/tag/ladies-night/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Collider Ladies Night</a> conversation to recap her journey playing Lottie thus far, including her heartbreaking downward spiral. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Yellowjackets Interview: Does Simone Kessell Think Lottie Is the First Antler Queen?

Simone Kessell is on a list. Having appeared on Star Wars min-series Obi-Wan Kenobi and worldwide sensation Yellowjackets, Kessell tells Newstalk ZB’s Francesca Rudkin in Hollywood terms, she is in elite company. “I’ve never really been on those lists, I’m sort of way down that list… I think Star Wars really helped get on that list and then from there everything’s kind of moved forward.” She says early in her career she would often second-guess herself, citing a lack of confidence, and wishes she could tell a younger Simone to be patient. “You’ve just got to keep working, the more auditions you do is work, the more opportunities to get in a room, the more you read, the more you work out physically, all of those things are preparing you for the next one.” Self-doubt was also something the actor struggled with before landing her breakout roles and says realising those feelings were all in her own head gave her a better understanding of how the industry works. Kessell (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Te Rangi) first graced our screens in 1992 soap Homeward Bound that was released at the same time as Shortland Street. As Kessell tells Rudkin, with an ever so delicate tongue in her cheek, we all know which of those two television shows is still running. Having cracked the US market, Kessell has been opened to two cult followings of fans in Star Wars and Yellowjackets, and been adored overseas, but struggled on her return to Aotearoa New Zealand to land roles she felt she would thrive in. “I feel like I just don’t get considered for anything back home. It’s weird.”  She is quick to remember fondly her role in Urewera raids movie Muru alongside Cliff Curtis, but says it is a strange feeling not to be on the New Zealand list. “Any other role and I’m not even on that list, I can be on a world list in Hollywood but for some reason I’m not on the New Zealand list anymore and that blows my mind.” While being a proud wāhine Maori, Kessell says if she is on the New Zealand list, it is more often than not for roles depicting single Maori mothers when rather than lawyers. “I’ve had to source work outside Aotearoa and that’s fine, I’m so privileged and so lucky but I would and am willing to do anything. It’s not about finance; it’s not about money, it’s about work and the representation.”  Upon returning home, Kessell says she was “put through the ringer” again in auditions. “I was like; can you maybe just read my CV or look at my reel? But it’s funny, because unlike Australia, New Zealand feels like if you’ve done work in the rest the rest of the world it doesn’t really come into it.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Simone Kessell is on a list. Having appeared on Star Wars min-series Obi-Wan Kenobi and worldwide sensation Yellowjackets, Kessell tells Newstalk ZB’s Francesca Rudkin in Hollywood terms, she is in elite company. “I’ve never really been on those lists, I’m sort of way down that list… I think Star Wars really helped get on that list and then from there everything’s kind of moved forward.” She says early in her career she would often second-guess herself, citing a lack of confidence, and wishes she could tell a younger Simone to be patient. “You’ve just got to keep working, the more auditions you do is work, the more opportunities to get in a room, the more you read, the more you work out physically, all of those things are preparing you for the next one.” Self-doubt was also something the actor struggled with before landing her breakout roles and says realising those feelings were all in her own head gave her a better understanding of how the industry works. Kessell (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Te Rangi) first graced our screens in 1992 soap Homeward Bound that was released at the same time as Shortland Street. As Kessell tells Rudkin, with an ever so delicate tongue in her cheek, we all know which of those two television shows is still running. Having cracked the US market, Kessell has been opened to two cult followings of fans in Star Wars and Yellowjackets, and been adored overseas, but struggled on her return to Aotearoa New Zealand to land roles she felt she would thrive in. “I feel like I just don’t get considered for anything back home. It’s weird.”  She is quick to remember fondly her role in Urewera raids movie Muru alongside Cliff Curtis, but says it is a strange feeling not to be on the New Zealand list. “Any other role and I’m not even on that list, I can be on a world list in Hollywood but for some reason I’m not on the New Zealand list anymore and that blows my mind.” While being a proud wāhine Maori, Kessell says if she is on the New Zealand list, it is more often than not for roles depicting single Maori mothers when rather than lawyers. “I’ve had to source work outside Aotearoa and that’s fine, I’m so privileged and so lucky but I would and am willing to do anything. It’s not about finance; it’s not about money, it’s about work and the representation.”  Upon returning home, Kessell says she was “put through the ringer” again in auditions. “I was like; can you maybe just read my CV or look at my reel? But it’s funny, because unlike Australia, New Zealand feels like if you’ve done work in the rest the rest of the world it doesn’t really come into it.”See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Simone Kessell: Star Wars and Yellowjackets star talks being on ‘the list’ in Hollywood, but not New Zealand

Simone Kessell has been acting for over 20 years - a few highlights from her extensive body of work include the original Australian favourite Heartbreak High and the iconic Hercules series. But at 47, it's her latest project that has gathered something of a cult following.  With two seasons under their belt, Yellowjackets has already developed an intense fandom who are singing the praises of a drama series that finally portrays trauma and female rage in a new and complicated way. And Simone is here to talk openly and honestly about why her work on the show has been a career highlight. On today's episode of Under The Gloss, Phoebe chats to Simone about the reality of portraying the dark subject matter at the heart of Yellowjackets, her 'car lifting' moments, being a Maori woman on a mainstream drama series and how women in their fifties are her greatest source of inspiration. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Simone Kessell has been acting for over 20 years - a few highlights from her extensive body of work include the original Australian favourite Heartbreak High and the iconic Hercules series. But at 47, it's her latest project that has gathered something of a cult following.  With two seasons under their belt, Yellowjackets has already developed an intense fandom who are singing the praises of a drama series that finally portrays trauma and female rage in a new and complicated way. And Simone is here to talk openly and honestly about why her work on the show has been a career highlight. On today's episode of Under The Gloss, Phoebe chats to Simone about the reality of portraying the dark subject matter at the heart of Yellowjackets, her 'car lifting' moments, being a Maori woman on a mainstream drama series and how women in their fifties are her greatest source of inspiration. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.