Hollywood Flashback: ‘Yellow Jackets’ Star Christina Ricci Guest In ‘Ally McBeal’

Before Christina Ricci Starred on Showtime yellow jackets As Misty Quigley, a high school staff manager turned sly and cunning nurse, she made her first foray into television as a guest star in David E. Kelly’s legal drama. Ali McBeal.

Twenty years ago, Ritchie appeared in seven episodes of the fifth and final season of the Fox show as Lisa Bump, a fierce attorney who meets in court with attorneys from the firm Cage & Fish and ends up marrying Greg German’s Richard Fish. . . The actress already had a healthy film career at the time, her iconic role as Wednesday Addams. the adams family also performances casper, the opposite of sex s sleepy hollow. He showed up malcolm in the middle and voiced the character in one episode the simpsonsBut Ali McBeal marked his first television work.

“In the late ’90s, my agents were always saying, ‘We have to be very careful that you don’t become a character actor,’” Ritchie said recently. THR. “They were too scared that I wouldn’t be the leader.” And often playing “weird” characters in the early days of his career, he added, “I’m okay with the category I’m in because for me it means I’ve been trying in my career. Doing things I feel like I’ve never seen before.”

Richie became a guest star Gray’s Anatomy, for which she received her first Emmy nomination in 2006. This year, she is nominated for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Modern Misty, who survives a 1996 plane crash that leaves her and her companions stranded in the desert for over a year (Samantha Hanratt plays teenage Misty).

As I looked at young Misty yellow jackets The pilot, Ritchie told him THR“I was dying to play that person who was on that stage. I just wanted to go home with him and find out what he was up to. I was very, very excited about it. ”

This story first appeared in the separate August issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.