[This story contains major spoilers from Yellowjackets season three, episode seven, “Croak.”]
Joel McHale‘s Yellowjackets casting story began at a Built to Spill concert in Los Angeles, when the actor bumped into the show’s co-creator Ashley Lyle at the Troubadour. The pair had met before, but this time they talked Yellowjackets. McHale was a fan of her hit Showtime series, and Lyle said she might have a role for him in season three. “I probably had three IPAs in me,” McHale recalls to The Hollywood Reporter. “I guess I didn’t really take her seriously? We’re here watching Built to Spill and she’s like, ‘Would you be interested?’ Fucking yeah, of…