The cast of "Yellowjackets" is a sprawling one, with different actors portraying the main characters in both the 1996 timeline, when the team's plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, and in the present.

Warning: This post contain spoilers for the first two episode of Yellowjackets Season 3. If there's anything Yellowjackets loves to do, it's introduce potential new threats for the adult survivors to deal with in the present-day timeline.

On its surface, it follows a high school girls' soccer team living in the wilderness after surviving a plane crash, as well as their older counterparts reckoning with the fallout decades later. It’s also about friendship,

With season 3 premiering, several of the "Yellowjackets" actors opened up about what they continue to love most about the story and character development on this series.

See photos of the cast from our exclusive portrait studio—and read what they have to say about the show's most shocking season yet.