The Long, Strange Road Trip of Elijah Wood

When Elijah Wood was cast for Season 2 of Yellowjackets, the Showtime thriller about a bunch of warped women and their particularly gruesome girlhoods, the choice was largely based on vibes. The first season of the show, which is set in both 1996 and 2021, benefited greatly from the creators’ meta decision to feature highly recognizable actors from the mid-to-late ’90s, like Juliette Lewis and Christina Ricci, in the characters’ present-day forms. And Wood, with his child-actor cred and his subsequent turn-o’-the-millennium Lord of the Rings ubiquity, definitely hit that same note.