The Crazy Story Behind Sophie Thatcher Getting Cast In ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ AND ‘Yellowjackets’ Days Apart

Sophie Thatcher went from being a relatively unknown actor to starring in TWO of the biggest shows on TV—The Book of Boba Fett and Yellowjackets—and it kinda happened all at once. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Sophie Thatcher is enjoying
a pretty rare moment in Hollywood, starring in two of
the most talked about shows of right now, The Book
of Boba Fett and Yellow Jackets. Particularly because she wasn't
exactly a household name beforehand, her career pretty much went
from zero to sixty in an instant, so the experience
has been surreal. It all started when Sophie had to
shoot and submit her own audition tapes for both because

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of the pandemic. She tells the Hollywood Reporter, I was
towing millions of self tapes and most of the time
I didn't hear anything in my head. It was like
Star Wars, There's no way. And then I got a
random call one night. I just ordered Popeyes. I was
eating a chicken sandwich and my agents say, remember that
Star Wars audition. Two days later, I was confirmed for
Yellow Jackets. It was a little overwhelming, and after staying
at home, not doing anything, being lazy and a little

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bit depressed, even more so when it rains it pours.
The Book of Boba Fett is on Disney Pluts and
Yellow Jackets is on Showtime that's direct from Hollywood,