Anya Taylor-Joy became a global sensation with her performance in The Queen’s Gambit. Now she’s poised to work with everyone you’ve ever heard of.
Because yes, she’s done a fair bit of that. Enormous eyes are highly effective instruments for communicating terror, a truth not lost on the innumerable directors who’ve cast Taylor-Joy in horror movies. Plain terror, however, gets boring fast. What distinguishes Taylor-Joy is the living intelligence of her performances. Even in M. Night Shyamalan’s wearisomein which she plays one of three girls held hostage by a man with dissociative identity disorder, she’s the smart one of the trio.
in February of last year, wearing a vintage Bob Mackie beaded wedding gown. She seems grateful, though, that this supernova moment has coincided with a period of necessary retreat. The usual hoopla of stardom is the stuff of the Before Times. Right now she’s mostly just excited to have bought a house in London a stone’s throw from her favorite Indian restaurant.
Nonetheless, the world still intrudes. Recently, jet-lagged after a flight to L.A., Taylor-Joy took a dazed and insomniac walk at 4 a.m. Stumbling around, she came face-to-her-own-face with a billboard advertisingShe recounts the progression of her feelings. First: “Oh my God, I’m on a billboard. As an actor for something I care about, that’s something that you really wanted.” Second: “The surreal aspect of it, of not being able to trust your eyes.
Beth’s fateful discovery of chess coincides with her addiction to tranquilizers, which she craftily hoards and gobbles at night, facilitating visions of a giant chessboard on the ceiling above her bed, on which she plots sequences and moves. In this way we’re encouraged to see Beth’s genius and her substance abuse as muddled up together from the start—she is as precocious a player as she is an addict.
Straight off, Taylor-Joy had what felt like a flash of insight: Beth had to have red hair. This intuition was shared by cocreator and director Frank, as well as the show’s hair and makeup designer, Daniel Parker. Taylor-Joy also lit upon a distinctive way that Beth would handle the chess pieces. When she demonstrated it to Bruce Pandolfini, a 73-year-old chess expert who consulted on the show, he told her he’d never seen a player do it before, but hey, he bought it.
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