Anya Taylor-Joy covers Vanity Fair

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“We used to joke on set that we were bringing sexy back to chess,” @AnyaTaylorJoy says about The Queen’s Gambit. “We didn’t think that’s what people would really think.”

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- VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) March 23, 2021

“I’m sitting here talking to you, and for the first time, I’m like, I know what I like. I know what I, as a person, enjoy!” says @AnyaTaylorJoy. “The whole of 2019 was me becoming a woman, essentially.”

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Highlights:

Says "“I think, I’ll probably understand this year in about five years. I think that’s when it will probably hit.”

“She is different and strange in ways that are fascinating,” says director David O. Russell. (Girl run)

2021 roles include:

• Laughter in the Dark, Nabokov novel adaptation with Scott Frank, who made Queen's Gambit
• Last Night in Soho, horror film, with Edgar Wright, features her singing.
• Furiosa prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road.

During filming Emma there was a scene where Emma gets a nosebleed and Taylor-Joy began bleeding real blood.

Interviewer asks if she's in therapy. She says, "I haven’t had any therapy for the last four years, but you’re speaking to somebody who spends a lot of time dissecting her thoughts. I’m at a point where it’s like, Okay, you know how you deal with this, you just have to sit with it and figure it out until it makes sense."

Says Queen's Gambit got very close to home, particularly the scene where she wakes up in the bathtub.

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