‘Yellowjackets’ Star Sophie Thatcher Says Filming the Baby-Eating Scene Was “So Gory and so Morbid” That It Gave Her Nightmares

Sophie Thatcher, who plays the young version of Natalie on Showtime’s Yellowjackets, has seen her fair share of morbid things in her time on the show. She’s witnessed the deaths of her soccer coach and teammates, watched another friend blow up in a prop plane, and yes, she ate poor Jackie.

But in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Thatcher revealed that there was one scene so gory and so morbid that it actually gave her and her co-stars nightmares: the baby-eating sequence that was part of Shauna’s extended dream after she gave birth to her stillborn baby in episode 6 this season.

When Thatcher was asked which scene from the series has been that hardest one to “rinse off,” she responded, “I think it was the baby-eating fantasy. All these nightmares started accumulating towards the end, and then all of us started having nightmares towards the end.”

She continued, “And it wasn’t even specifically about cannibalism; it was never about that. Everything was just so gory and so morbid, and the darkness was getting into our normal lives, which wasn’t fun, especially when you’re trying to sleep. But that’s what happens when you’re working on a show like that.”

Thatcher also joked that the cabin where that scene took place started to feel like it was haunted to her.

“Oh, the cabin set … There’s so many memories, and honestly, the first time I went inside it, I was like, ‘I would rent this as an Airbnb. This is so cool-looking.’ So it’s really cool, just aesthetically,” she said. “It’s very Victorian and there’s so many old-timey things that you can take in, but that place is haunted. Towards the end, I was like, ‘It’s haunted. There’s too much that’s happened. We need to move on.'”

Considering what happened to the cabin during the Season two finale, at least she won’t have to worry about filming in that haunted set anymore.