#i've giffed practically the entire movie in these past two years

[princessnijireiki]

I love that Yellowstone had their 2-part season premiere this past weekend, and since then I've gotten a bunch of notes on my gifsets going, "WHERE IS ANGELA?! BRING BACK ANGELA BLUE THUNDER, YOU COWARDS! BOOOOOO!!! 📢📢📢"

Like... it's really admirable energy... but uhhhh I don't think she's back this year 😔 sorry kings & queens. Q'orianka Kilcher's made no posts or IG stories about going back to Montana, no makeup chair selfies, and done ZERO promo on socials at all for this season, even to follow up the premiere or hint at a reappearance. And she's not listed on her own or Yellowstone's IMDB as doing the role again for any episodes this season.

Full disclosure, I don't know if this is a vaccine issue; now that they're fully FDA approved even beyond emergency use, and can therefore be a more legitimately enforced factor in hiring & workplace safety practices, a lot of actors who skated by unvaccinated in 2020 through the bulk of '21 are having a weird time of it & (rightfully) losing gigs. Only very rich actors or people locked into tall superhero-movie-money casts can get away with that shit, but for normal actors in normal roles, especially supporting & guest characters? That's a damn near uninsurable liability that can potentially derail an entire production by exposing the rest of the cast & crew to infection, especially if people aren't paying everybody to self isolate in a bubble with only each other for the full production run + two weeks before & after. You are expendable in that regard... so tbh that's my personal prevailing theory.

It's also possible the writing team just went another direction, or plan to bring Angela in for a different season, or as a surprise later on during this one (though... with no social media promo... that's very unlikely).

But yeahhhhhh uh tl;dr: I'll make more .gifs if & when Angela DOES show up again in Jellystone, but... don't hold your breath.