Bob Dylan“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” has been covered by everyone since Avril Lavigne has the grateful dead – and, more famously, by Guns N’ Roseswho made it a hit in the early 90s. Now, actress-singer Sophie Thatcher takes on the classic for his next horror movie Heretic.

The cover sounds like a lo-fi lullaby, with Thatcher delicately laying her voice over a slide guitar. “The cover version is very melancholy and feminine, and more dreamy and atmospheric, whereas Dylan’s is much simpler,” she said. Rolling stone. “There are so many parallels with the film that it was almost an obvious choice.”

Thatcher zooms in from her home in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, where she lives with her boyfriend, cat and dog. “It’s really beautiful here, an artist’s dream,” she says. “But it’s a bit isolating and I can’t drive. It’s not ideal, but it forces me to stay here and do stuff.

Thatcher was in Vancouver to finish Yellow vests Season three when Heretic directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods emailed him with the idea for the Dylan cover. “I knew the song, obviously,” she says. “I’d never heard the Guns N’ Roses version, which is funny, because when people were talking to me about it, I was like, ‘No, what do you mean?’ It’s Bob Dylan. So it was good that I didn’t know. No shade, but it’s just very different. And I think that when I heard Dylan’s version, I only knew the very moving approach, rather than rock.

In HereticThatcher and Chloe East play two missionaries who knock on the door of an Englishman (Hugh Grant) in the hope of converting him. Spoiler alert: things don’t go as planned. Thatcher’s rendition of the 1973 hit appears at the end of the horror film. “There is a butterfly, it’s very ambiguous,” she says. “We were trying to recreate that dark, bittersweet feeling. As soon as I heard it with the slide guitar, (I realized) it sounds exactly like Mazzy Starin a wonderful way.

She continues: “It works with the film because Hugh Grant is giving a speech about religion and Christianity, (and how) they are all iterations of each other. And it’s the same with music. He continues on this tangent about Radiohead. “Creep” comes from “The Air That I Breathe” by The Hollies. They were prosecuted. And then “Get Free” by Lana Del Rey copies “Creep”. So it’s this ongoing discussion where there’s only a limited number of chord progressions. And in this cover, it was basically “Fade into You” but “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”. It was clever, and it works well at the end of the film to put a little ribbon on it.

The cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” comes less than two months before Christmas, when James Mangold’s highly anticipated Dylan biopic A complete stranger arrives in theaters. “I actually auditioned for this a long time ago,” she says of the Timothée Chalamet film. “He’s incredible. It will be interesting to see if he introduces Dylan to a younger audience.

Thatcher, who released her first EP, Rotate and scratchlast month, said music was his first love, long before acting. She grew up with music, singing in a choir while her mother was the pianist in their Mormon church. “My mother loved the New Wave,” she explains. “A lot of Smiths, New Order, Joy Division. The first band I was obsessed with was Radiohead, and then there was Elliott Smith. When I was very young — I was 10 or 11 — I just listened OK Computer every day. It was the first album that really meant something to me when I was old enough to form my own opinions.

Thatcher’s favorite albums of the year include Cindy Lee’s SixtyMJ Lenderman Fireworksand that of Jessica Pratt Here on the ground. “It’s been a really good year and I feel like people are doing what they want now,” she says. “Whereas in the last few years, it’s like a resurgence of indie sleaze, all these resurgences that are disingenuous. But now I feel like there’s a real feeling in the music that I haven’t felt in a long time.

As for Yellow vests In the third season, Thatcher doesn’t give any spoilers, but things are bound to take place in the past and present, as the cabin burns in the wilderness and the older version of Thatcher’s character, Natalie (played by Juliette Lewis ), dies.

“I don’t know if this sets the bar too high or if I have the right to say it, but people should expect answers,” she said. “We’re going back to where the pilot was, which I think is the perfect time for that. It’s getting more and more unbalanced, and Natalie is going through more than anything. And I said it last season, but I’ll keep saying it: Now you see what made Natalie so messed up. There’s a little more of that connection between me and Juliette now, even though she’s gone now. It was a fun season, but it was really exhausting.

So how do you manage an acting and music career simultaneously? “Music comes so easy to me, which is why I feel so privileged and almost spoiled in a way,” Thatcher says. “But acting is a fucking beast in itself. So how do I balance it? I don’t know yet!