The name of the actress Anya Taylor-Joy, who has a non-standard attractive appearance and a talent for transforming into completely different people, is noted in the notebook of many famous world-class directors, as this girl is adored by the audience.
Let’s take a closer look at Anya Taylor-Joy, who was able to captivate the whole world with the game of chess, and right after she starred in the popular TV series The Queen’s Move.
How it all started
The future star of world cinema came to England from Argentina and was not even going to learn English. Ani’s mother, who was the youngest child in a family of seven, grew up in Zambia and has lived in Spain and the UK for a long time, while her father has both Argentinean and Scottish roots. Almost throughout her childhood, Anya, who spent quite a lot of time alternately in London and Buenos Aires, spoke exclusively in Spanish. Missing home, she categorically refused to learn English, hoping that she would be sent back home, but the plan did not work, and therefore she had to start learning English, as Anya realized that otherwise she simply would not be able to find friends.
Later, the actress admitted that it was always difficult for her to find a common language with her peers, as she had to constantly run into some kind of barrier, while once on the set, Anya immediately realized that this was her home. So, if at the age of 16 Anya for a long time could not make a choice between a career as a model and an actress, then at 17 she played her first major film role. The girl notes that while in Argentina, she was English, while in England she became exotic, as she came from Argentina, while in the USA she is a girl of Anglo-Argentine origin.
Anya Taylor-Joy loved to dance since childhood, but already in high school she began to increasingly participate in projects as a model, although the girl’s career began rather strangely. So, once a girl tried for a long time to escape from a suspicious type who was chasing her in a car, but later it turned out that it was a casting agent. Despite the fact that the modeling career was going pretty well, the idea of becoming an actress did not let go.
In 2014, Anya meets actor Allen Leach, who played the role of Tom Branson in Downton Abbey, who decided to introduce the girl to his agent, as a result of which Anya Taylor-Joy changed the modeling business to the world of cinema, although she did not burn bridges, continuing to work with brands such as Harper’s Bazaar and Dazed. It is worth noting that the girl failed her first casting for the role of the heroine Angelina Jolie in her youth in the fairy tale “Maleficent”. Anya played her first role in the TV series Vampire Academy, but given her episodic nature, no one paid attention to the girl.
True popularity
Anya Taylor-Joy becomes a real star after she played the main role in the film “The Witch”, which conquered Stephen King himself. In 2016, Anya starred in several more thrillers, and already in 2017, she was nominated for a BAFTA award in the Rising Star category. Due to the fact that Anya successfully gets used to any role, the directors offer her a variety of roles, ranging from a cynical teenager or a girl of the future US president to a strange hybrid of a person whom Anya played in the movie “Morgan”. The actress, as the directors assure, is able to cope with any role, although critics at one time noted that with her extraordinary appearance, she risks remaining one single role, namely, a girl with a penetrating look.
In order to keep a little “spirit of the role” for herself, Anya always takes something from the shooting. To get used to the role, according to the actress, smells help her, because, having poor eyesight since childhood, she feels them very clearly, considering this fact a kind of compensation. Anya Taylor-Joy has earned the nickname “scream queen” for her ability to express emotions in the most intense scenes in horror films. Despite a fairly rich film career, Anya became most famous for her role in the mini-series The Queen’s Move, after the release of which the sales of chess in the world increased dramatically, and in order to enroll in the chess section, you have to not only stand in line , but also to pass a rather serious competition.
The picture is permeated with charisma and tension, experience, but at the heart lies genius and intelligence. Before starting filming, the actress did not understand anything about chess, but thanks to the advice of grandmaster Bruce Pandolfini, she managed to feel this game. Particular attention was paid to the staging of chess choreography, as a result of which the heroine Anya moves the pieces around the board quite gracefully. The actress claims that the role of the lonely Beth, who is gifted and sharp, is for her a 100% hit in the type.
Given the fact that the actress is only 24 years old, the audience is looking forward to new work. So, the actress has already been approved for the role of Furiosa in her youth, in the Mad Max prequel, which is based on the story of this heroine. Initially, the directors were going to rejuvenate Charlize Theron using computer technology, but later abandoned this idea, and Anya promised not to try to copy the style of the game. Among the most anticipated films is the historical saga “Northman”, which tells about the Icelandic Vikings. Nicole Kidman and William Defoe are involved in the film, which is being shot by the director, who opened the way for Anya to the world of big cinema by inviting her to the horror film The Witch.
As for the personal life of Anya Taylor-Joy, given that despite the fact that the actress is quite actively published on Instagram, information about her personal life is secret, since she never talks about it. Unlike her personal life, the actress’s hobby is open – interior design, for which Anya strives to find any free minute in her rather busy schedule.
I wonder how many watched films with the participation of Anya Taylor-Joy?
