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Anya Taylor-Joy Thought Her ‘The Witch’ Performance Would End Her Career?!
Anya Taylor-Joy is working her way to becoming a household name. After making her lead debut in A24’s The Witch, the actress has landed several starring roles from M. Night Shyamalan’s Split to Netflix’s incredible chess-themed dramatic thriller “The Queen’s Gambit”. It only helps that she carries captivating features that are instantly recognizable.
As for The Witch, the indie made its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and was subsequently acquired by A24 for its theatrical run. It would gain cult status and give birth to A24’s “brand” of films, which are incredibly divisive amongst Bloody Disgusting readers. Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore Anya Taylor-Joy’s breathtaking performance in The Witch.
It’s hard for most people to hear a recording of themselves, let alone see footage, which is what makes this story feel so personal and human.
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the actress to talk about her career leading up to her role in “The Queen’s Gambit”, currently a top Emmy contender. She reflects on the first time seeing The Witch and the panic she experienced – panic so potent that she still gets chills when thinking about it.
“[Director Robert Eggers] showed us the film maybe two hours before the audience screening, and I was devastated,” she told the site about the Sundance premiere. “I thought I’d never work again, I still get shivers thinking about it. It was just the worst feeling of, ‘I have let down the people I love most in the world. I didn’t do it right.’ And I’m quite verbose, I like to talk, I like to communicate. I did not talk, I just cried. I couldn’t handle seeing my face that large.”
Anya Taylor-Joy gets extremely honest and vulnerable in the piece, even revealing she nearly gave up on acting after a series of overwhelming experiences. “I know it sounds crazy now, but yeah, I was,” she exclaimed when asked if she was literally going to stop acting. Thank god she didn’t. Next up is a starring role in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho.
You can read the piece in its entirety over at THR.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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