From The Witch to Glass to Edgar Wright’s now-shooting horror movie Last Night In Soho, Anya Taylor-Joy has embraced her dark side. So why is being a toy in playmobil: the movie her most challenging role yet?
It’s 11.30am on Monday 10 June, and Anya Taylor-Joy has just arrived at Ealing Studios for a final rehearsal before she begins shooting on Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho. She will star alongside Matt Smith and Leave No Trace’s Thomasin McKenzie in what Wright has described as being a film about the London he’s experienced – fascinating given it’s a psychological horror movie in the vein of Repulsion and Don’t Look Now. Taylor-Joy, it’s rumored, will play the lead in one of the film’s dual timelines, the 1960s, while McKenzie is a modern-day fashion student. Beyond these sketchy details, little is known.
“When Edgar and I first met, a couple of years ago, he said that he was writing a script that he wanted me to be a part of,” says Taylor-Joy, whose sunny smile counters the London drizzle. “But you know what movies are like. They’re ephemeral. They’re there, and then they’re not there. It’s crazy. So the fact that we’re actually on set now is amazing. I think it’s going to be a very wild ride for us filming it, and it’s going to be a wild time for the audience in the cinema, that’s for sure.” She laughs. “And, of course, it’s Edgar, so it’s going to have some killer tunes.”
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