Christina Ricci recently received a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her fabulous performance in Yellowjackets, but her priority was firmly where it should be as a new mom—getting more sleep.
“My baby was teething really badly all last night.” Ricci told ET Canada. “So I didn’t actually get to sleep really until five in the morning. So I overslept and my husband tried to wake me up at 8:40 to let me know I’d been nominated, but I chose to keep sleeping and then woke up later to like crazy amounts of texts and calls.”
Ricci plays plane crash survivor Misty in the fan-favorite series on Showtime. Co-star Melanie Lynskey was also nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actress category, and the show received a total of seven nominations.
Ricci joked that it’d been some time since she was nominated, so she didn’t realize she was supposed to be publicly reacting to the news instead of catching up on much-needed sleep. “I didn’t realize that, you know, back in 1901 when I was nominated last, we didn’t do these phone call interviews after the nominations, you were just sort of surprised. So I didn’t realize that I had to do this.” Ricci was last nominated for Drama Guest Actress on Grey’s Anatomy in 2006.
The Yellowjackets star first announced her pregnancy with then-fiancé Mark Hampton in August 2021, and the duo eloped two months later. In December, they welcomed a baby girl, Cleo.
Ricci said it was the show’s originality that attracted her to the role.
“‘Yellowjackets’ is a kind of new feeling, very different original show,” she said. “That takes a lot of bravery and conviction. We took a chance choosing to play her the way that we did or create that character the way that we did. It’s so wonderful to have this sort of validation and acknowledgment that we made the right choices. Myself and the creators of the show.”
The new mom also said she has “absolutely no objectivity” when it comes to projects she works on, and she “had no idea that it would explode in the way that it has.” She also told Deadline she loves the “incredibly varied examples of women” the show presents and “the honest portrayal of these characters,” who “never pander” and “never sort of wink at the audience, begging for affection.”
Her idea to catch some more sleep in lieu of getting well-deserved attention for her nomination was peak mom, and we’re here for it.
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