dear actor, Elijah Wood will officially join the cast of the series yellowjacketsof paramount. That’s right, the second season will feature the actor as a guest star for the entire season, as Wood is best known for his role as Frodo Baggins in the Oscar-winning blockbuster The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which was adapted from the fantasy classic. JRR Tolkien’s of the same name.
But, this actor has been working in the industry for years before taking on that role, even since he was a child and teenager, so Yellowjackets is the most recent series that we will see him in, this show that premiered in late 2021 , features two different timelines, the first taking place in the mid-90s after a high school football team lands in the Canadian wilderness and is forced to find ways to survive.
While the second takes place in the present day, following some of the adult survivors as they deal with the aftermath of what happened to them as teenagers, casting has been underway for Yellowjackets season 2. which will begin filming at the end of the summer, in addition Lauren Ambrose will also be cast as the adult version of Van, the role of adult Lottie who is now a cult leader, as well as Simone Kessel.
Elijah Wood just joined the cast of Yellowjackets season 2, and his performance will be classified as a guest role, but he’ll be a recurring character throughout the season, plus, according to THR, he’ll be playing a citizen detective who’s after Ricci’s character, Misty Quigley, your name will Walter and he will be a citizen with detective overtones.
So far, this will be the biggest role he’s taken on since The Lord of the Rings, as he’s appeared in a variety of independent and offbeat projects since then, and this will be his big comeback.