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 [complimentary] 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.)
