'Yellowjackets': Kevin Alves Promoted to Series Regular for Season 2

Yellowjackets star Kevin Alves, who performs the function of Travis Martinez within the hit Showtime drama, has been upped to collection common for the forthcoming second season, in accordance with Deadline.

Alves’ Travis is the older son of Coach Martinez, the top coach of the Yellowjackets ladies soccer workforce, who have been concerned in a airplane crash on their solution to the nationals. Throughout the primary season, we noticed Travis looking for his youthful brother Javi (Luciano Leroux) and creating a romantic relationship with Natalie “Nat” Scatorccio (Sophie Thatcher).

Before touchdown his function on Yellowjackets, Alves starred as Javi Gonzalez within the Netflix fantasy horror collection Locke & Key. He additionally recurred for 2 seasons on Shadowhunters as Bat Velasquez. His different tv credit embody Degrassi: The Next Generation, Warehouse 13, The Expanse, and Chicago Fire.

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets premiered on Showtime on November 14, 2021, and was met with essential acclaim. The first season obtained seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, together with Outstanding Drama Series and appearing nominations for Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci.

In addition to Lynskey and Ricci, the collection stars Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Samantha Hanratty, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Nélisse, Steven Krueger, and Warren Kole. New forged members becoming a member of for the second season embody Elijah Wood, Lauren Ambrose, and Simone Kessell.

The present was renewed for a second season in December 2021, and manufacturing began on Season 2 in August 2022. Filming is anticipated to wrap up in February, in accordance with Lyle, with a projected early 2023 launch date on the most optimistic.

“Nobody wished to get again on the air shortly greater than we did,” Lyle beforehand informed The Wrap. “But we actually rolled instantly from ending up Season 1 into Season 2. It’s a deeply serialized story, and we wished to verify we didn’t rush it, and that we acquired it proper. And so this was the earliest we may accomplish that.”