Tawny Cypress's Coming Out Story Involves a Yellowjackets Cast Member

Yellowjackets star Tawny Cypress has shared her own coming out story as part of a docuseries, and it’s got one hell of a payoff.

The actress appeared in Shudder’s Queer for Fear docuseries, which may be the first time she has discussed her sexuality publicly, per a deep dive from Autostraddle’s Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya.

Although Queer for Fear mostly centers on exploring the queer history of horror itself, Cypress shared her own coming out story in the last episode, noting that it revolved around a screening of 1994’s Heavenly Creatures.

“When I was 18, I moved in with my best friend in New York, and I was in love with her. I was truly in love with her. And we went to see Heavenly Creatures, and it changed everything,” she said. “I took the step. I was like, ‘I want to be with you, let’s just live the way we want to live.’ It was life-affirming.”

It’s a sweet story in and of itself, despite Heavenly Creatures ultimately being about a toxic relationship between two girls that culminated in murder. But what makes it even better is that Heavenly Creatures was fellow Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey’s breakout role, and the origins of queer women loving her so dearly (albeit far from the only reason).

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It makes a cosmic sort of sense that the two are now working together on a show so well-loved by queer people, where Cypress is playing an out married queer politician, and Lynskey is playing the adult version of a character who everyone is convinced was in love with her female best friend in high school.

What we’d really like to know now is whether Lynskey has heard this story herself, because it certainly sounds like something she would love!

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