Sophie Thatcher on Making ‘Her Private Hell,’ How Nicolas Winding Refn Became the ‘Cool Dad I Never Had’ and Wanting to Work With More European Directors: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Safe’

May 20, 2026 7:30am PT Sophie Thatcher on Making ‘Her Private Hell,’ How Nicolas Winding Refn Became the ‘Cool Dad I Never Had’ and Wanting to Work With More European Directors: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Safe’

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Sophie Thatcher hasn’t been sleeping much lately.

“It’s been a blur,” the 25-year-old actor says when we meet Tuesday afternoon on a rooftop in Cannes. It’s the “Yellowjackets” and “Heretic” breakout’s first time at the film festival — though she fits right into the glamour clad in a badass, all-black leather Louis Vuitton look — and she’s here under admittedly insane circumstances as the lead in Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn‘s first film in 10 years, “Her Private Hell.” The horror-thriller premiered out of competition on Monday night to a seven-minute standing ovation, and Thatcher is still feeling the rush.

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