This article explores the experience of young actress Sophie Thatcher, whose star is on the rise thanks to her breakout role in the hit series Yellowjackets. Despite her success, Thatcher grapples with the pressures of fame and the constant scrutiny of the public eye. She also discusses her passion for music, her upcoming projects, and her views on the current sociopolitical climate.
Thatcher’s star just won't stop rising. In the last few months, the Chicago native has been profiled in countless outlets. Our few hours together at the fabulous vintage store Superette on a frigid January morning are bookended by other interviews, so she’s been answering a lot of the same questions over and over again.
“It's interesting having to repeat yourself so many times and not let that become degrading or make yourself feel like a phony,” Thatcher says, clearly, and understandably, a little wiped, while nonetheless charming and engaged (although the black coffee we’ve been downing all morning might have something to do with it). Thatcher is a regular Holden Caulfield: very concerned about seeming to be “phony,” projecting prickliness from a distance while protecting a soft underbelly that you imagine she must access to do all that screaming and crying and bleeding on screen. She certainly shines in front of the camera, but stepping into the limelight as Rising Star Sophie Thatcher doesn’t come naturally to her, she says. “This is the first phase in my career so far where I’ve actually realized that I'm being perceived, and that's kind of f*cking me up, and I'm trying to distance myself from that and realize that I'm my own person outside of acting.” So who is Sophie Thatcher outside of acting? For one, she’s very online. “Oh, I'm posting like, 24/7. It's awful. I’m on everything,” she says, laughing. She knows as well as the next person that technology is deeply flawed. “I do, not to be f*cking corny, wish I lived in a time without phones. But then I've learned so much about my taste and what I'm into on my phone. I feel so lucky to be in a time where finding music is the easiest it's ever been.” Thatcher’s taste is finely honed as seen in the outfit she wears to the photo shoot: a cute ‘70s-Y2K-patterned button-down and a long, black, pinstripe coat. The outfit she brings with her is a sickening cream set with a dress, gloves, and headpiece, and the fur coat she borrowed from Superette for the shoot and then bought, after encouragement from her team, despite her fears it makes her look “c*nty.” (It really does look like it was made for her.) Music is one place where her taste shines through; it's equally key to the plot of Yellowjackets. When I bring up my favorite needle drop of the first two seasons, Elliott Smith’s “Pitseleh,” Thatcher immediately responds, “That sh*t killed me. I was so mad it wasn’t my scene. I was like, out of every song, too, you had to do…?!” She groans again. For her part, Thatcher says she’s already working on new music. After releasing her first EP last fall, when we speak, Thatcher is gearing up for one of her first live performances since it dropped, a charity show for those recovering from the January fires in Los Angeles. In hushed tones, she tells me David Byrne of the Talking Heads – the band she'd been listening to earlier that morning – is on the lineup. Exposed as she is out in the world, Thatcher loves the private music-making process. “I'm very obsessed with the recording part. I think that's the most magical part, working on it, fine-tuning it, that's the most exciting part,” she says. “You have control. I feel like in so much of my life I lack control.” She’s clearly great at connecting with the art that is meaningful to her: In a move that kinda gagged me as a lifelong online indie person, Thatcher starred in the 2022 video for iconic ‘90s band Pavement and their “Harness Your Hopes,” originally released in 1999 and later viral on TikTok. (The video is also how she met her boyfriend, whom she described as a “huge Pavement fan” in an interview last fall.) As we speak, just days after Donald Trump’s inauguration and within weeks of the start of the devastating LA fires, Thatcher directs the conversation there, saying, “I think I have a project in March that's out of the country, which would be great because I just want to f*cking leave.” In the initial aftermath of both, she says, she just felt “defeated.” “It's interesting that Companion is coming out around this time. So many of my movies talk about lack of control and not having control over your own body, too,” Thatcher says, as we observe that politicians continue attacking trans health care and abortion access. Companion currently stands at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviewers praising the sharp-tongued satirical horror as an ideal balm for the arrival of a second Trump administration. Without spoiling anything (it’s better to let the film’s twists play out in front of you), the story centers on Thatcher’s character, Iris, and her boyfriend, played by Jack Quaid, who join friends at a remote cabin. Tonally, Companion is as if 2014’s Ex Machina was made by the team that made Bodies Bodies Bodies — current and darkly satirical, exaggerating the shitty, entitled dudes you might find on a dating app until it doesn’t feel all that exaggerate
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