This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. Our guest Melanie Linsky is nominated for an Emmy for

Best Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in the Showtime series Yellow Jackets.

She spoke with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Bulldinotto about the show and her career.

Melanie Linsky fans are happy she's finally getting the recognition she deserves for her

leading role in the critically acclaimed and cult fan favorite Yellow Jackets.

After her first movie Heavenly Creatures in 1994, she starred in so many film and TV shows,

including Up in the Air, Sweet Home Alabama, I don't feel at home in this world anymore.

Don't look up, togetherness, and Mrs. America. In Yellow Jackets, she plays Shauna, one of the

survivors of a 1996 plane crash. She was a member of a high school soccer team on their way to the

National Championships, when the plane crashes and the survivors have to spend over a year

in the Canadian wilderness. Viewers slowly learn all the terrible things that the survivors had to

do to stay alive. The show goes back and forth, showing the teenagers before and after the crash,

as well as in 2021, when the few remaining survivors try to carry on with their lives while still

living with the memories of the crash and the aftermath. Here's a scene from the first episode

of Yellow Jackets. It's the present day and Melanie Linsky's character is married with a teenager

and living in the same New Jersey town where she grew up. She's at home when a woman claiming to be

a reporter approaches her wanting to tell her story. The reporter is played by Rika Sharma.

I know what you want to hear. But the truth is, the plane crashed. A bunch of my friends died

and the rest of us starved and scavenged and prayed for 19 months until they finally found us.

And that's the end of the story. I think we both know there's a bit more to it than that.

I can't imagine what you guys went through out there. Nobody can. And that is worth something.

It's worth a lot actually. I can guarantee you a seven figure book advance right here,

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