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\n\tFor six months, Anya Taylor-Joy was not allowed to breathe.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the Australian set of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/em>, director George Miller delivered the same edict daily, with the patience and conviction of someone who has made exactly the movies he wanted to make his entire career: Don\u2019t breathe. Close your mouth. Show no emotion. He wanted an icon, and icons, in his view, do not fidget.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTaylor-Joy, 29, can do many things. But staying put is not one of them.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn fact, her latest project \u2014 Lucky<\/em>, a propulsive Apple TV crime thriller premiering July 15 \u2014 has her on the run for nearly the entire length of its seven episodes: sprinting, scrambling, tumbling, never stopping. It is, in ways both obvious and not, the most personal project of her career.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt this particular moment, though, she is seemingly content to linger, eating a bowl of berries on the sun-dappled terrace of a West Hollywood restaurant while recalling that cursed director\u2019s note \u2014 don\u2019t breathe, close your mouth, show no emotion \u2014 like someone who has processed something genuinely difficult and come out the other side with her humor intact.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn billboards around L.A., she is the otherworldly face of Dior and Tiffany. Seated just a few inches away, however, she feels entirely approachable, like an old friend meeting you for breakfast. But every so often, the light catches her a certain way, or she turns her head and simply holds still, and her face reassembles the ones you know: chess master Beth Harmon. Furiosa. The girl from The Witch<\/em> who gets on suspiciously well with an evil black goat. Also, somehow, Princess Peach.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year, Taylor-Joy has three major projects pulling her in opposite directions. Lucky<\/em> is the first time she has the producing title to match the collaborative instincts she\u2019s had since her first film, followed by Dune: Part Three<\/em>, the conclusion of Denis Villeneuve\u2019s science fiction opus. Then she\u2019ll take a trip to Middle-earth. One is intimate, kinetic, entirely hers. The other two are the biggest movie franchises on the planet.<\/p>\n

\n\tReese Witherspoon\u2019s Hello Sunshine, which is producing Lucky<\/em>, had one actress in mind when they optioned the Marissa Stapley novel on which it\u2019s based. \u201cAnya was always Lucky,\u201d Witherspoon says over email. \u201cShe was the first and only actress we shared the book with.\u201d What they got in return was more than a star. \u201cShe\u2019s a born producer,\u201d Witherspoon continues. \u201cShe cares deeply, connects viscerally to the character.\u201d Taylor-Joy, for her part, knew immediately why. \u201cThis is somebody who can\u2019t sit still,\u201d she says of her grifter character Lucky Armstrong. \u201cAnd I\u2019m somebody that loves to move.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tThe producing credit on Lucky<\/em> may be new, but the instinct to orchestrate isn\u2019t. Taylor-Joy has spent much of her career quietly lobbying directors, arguing for characters and involving herself in decisions that extend well beyond performance. Furiosa<\/em> would prove to be the most extreme test of that instinct. But first, there was Argentina.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor-Joy was born in Miami \u2014 her father was working there at the time \u2014 but raised in Buenos Aires, the youngest of six children spread across nearly four decades of family. Her eldest sister is in her 60s; her nearest sibling is seven years older. She grew up feral, in the best sense. Outside constantly, obsessed with animals, collecting and hatching eggs, teaching ducklings to swim. Her father was an investment banker who retired at 40, got bored and became a world champion powerboat racer \u2014 and she rode with him, the spray and the speed and the noise a very particular high, which felt completely normal at the time. Her mother was a psychologist. The family was sprawling and warm and physical.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2002, her father looked at the unstable political situation in Argentina and decided his children needed to grow up somewhere safer. Taylor-Joy was 61\/2 when the family relocated to London. She didn\u2019t speak a word of English. Everything that had made her herself \u2014 the warmth, the animals, the cousins who stayed behind \u2014 was suddenly\u00a0gone.<\/p>\n

\n\tEngland was a shock. On her first day of school, still operating on Argentine instincts, she kissed a classmate on the cheek. At 61\/2, she was immediately branded a lesbian and frozen out. The bullying that followed went straight for whatever a girl is most uncertain about. What they told her, repeatedly, was that she wasn\u2019t beautiful.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo she found her worth somewhere else. She learned English the only way available to her \u2014 Harry Potter<\/em>, cover to cover, book by book, then back to the beginning. For a girl who couldn\u2019t go home, Hogwarts was close enough.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer mother remembers 8-year-old Anya discovering the word \u201cagent\u201d and adding it to her wish list, right next to \u201cpuppy.\u201d She googled obsessively \u2014 how did people get their start in Hollywood, what was the path, who did you have to know \u2014 and kept getting the same infuriating answer: I was in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs an 11-year-old who\u2019d been in one school play,\u201d she says, \u201cthat was not helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHer break, when it came, arrived \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 while she was on the move. Albeit a little wobbly.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor-Joy was 16. She had a party the next day and had never worn heels before. She wanted to practice, so she put on a pair and took her dog for a walk. A car began to slow alongside her. She walked faster. The car kept pace. She picked up the dog and ran. A man leaned out the window and said: \u201cIf you stop, you won\u2019t regret it.\u201d Against her better judgment, she stopped. Inside the car with the man was Sarah Doukas, the head of the modeling agency Storm. Taylor-Joy\u2019s response was immediate and unambiguous. \u201cI have no interest in modeling,\u201d she told her, \u201cother than I hear that sometimes models become actors. And that\u2019s what I want to do with my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest proceeded quickly. She started auditioning. One day, a script arrived, and she tore through it in one sitting. She wasn\u2019t able to sleep that night. She didn\u2019t recognize the feeling at first. \u201cI just knew I\u2019d been possessed by something,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was one complication. The character of Thomasin was described in the script as plain-faced. \u201cI\u2019m a lot of things,\u201d she says. \u201cBut not that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was Robert Eggers\u2019 The Witch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production had no money, no stars and was going to shoot in a frigid Canadian forest. She went in and read for Eggers, and at the end of the audition, he knelt close to her and said: \u201cWork on the accent. I\u2019d really like to see you again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe got the part. She also was offered a Disney Channel show the same week and turned it down. She was going to do The Witch<\/em>, and The Witch<\/em> was going to do something to her, she sensed. When she arrived on set, she discovered Eggers had quietly changed the description in the script from \u201cplain-faced\u201d to \u201cwith big, haunting eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat really moved me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tEggers admits she wasn\u2019t what he initially pictured when he wrote Thomasin. What convinced him was something else. \u201cAnya was the only person who delivered the dialogue exactly as I heard it in my head when I wrote it,\u201d he says. She understood the character in a way he hadn\u2019t expected.<\/p>\n

\nT<\/em>he Witch<\/em> was made for next to nothing, which meant everyone was required to do everything. There was no such thing as \u201cthat\u2019s not my department.\u201d You helped with hair, you moved equipment, you figured it out. You earned your place or got out of the way.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost also steered clear of the goat.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Phillip \u2014 the malevolent goat at the center of the film\u2019s dread \u2014 was, by most accounts, a genuine menace. He injured Ralph Ineson, who played Taylor-Joy\u2019s father, badly enough that Ineson and Eggers later made a pilgrimage to a famous London restaurant to eat goat in revenge. Taylor-Joy, a vegetarian, declined to join. \u201cYou boys do whatever you got to do,\u201d she told them. She and Black Phillip had gotten on fine. \u201cAnimals and I have always had a connection,\u201d she says. She had even tried to ride him. He was bigger than a standard goat, she notes, but not quite rideable. \u201cWe gave it a good go, though,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tYears later, Eggers still talks as much about Taylor-Joy\u2019s work ethic as her talent. He remembers an actor showing up barefoot in mud and freezing temperatures without complaint, becoming \u201ca leader that everyone looked up to\u201d despite it being her first film.<\/p>\n

\nT<\/em>he Witch<\/em> grossed $40 million on a $4 million budget, announcing Taylor-Joy to the industry without quite making her a household name. The years that followed were an education in patience \u2014 she appeared in films like M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s Split<\/em> and Glass<\/em> and the black comedy Thoroughbreds<\/em>, good projects with interesting directors, but nothing that quite broke through to the mainstream. She waited. It took five years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen came a call from Scott Frank, the writer of Out of Sight<\/em> and Minority Report<\/em>, who had spent years trying to crack a faithful adaptation of Walter Tevis\u2019 1983 novel about a chess prodigy and her drug addiction. Taylor-Joy had 90 minutes to read the book before the meeting, after which she sprinted to Frank\u2019s office and announced two things: \u201cI was like, \u2018It\u2019s not about chess! And Beth Harmon has to have red hair.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018OK, sit down.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tNobody thought it was going to work. Her friends thought she was crazy \u2014 six months to make a Netflix limited series about chess? But Beth Harmon was, in Taylor-Joy\u2019s own accounting, someone she had already inhabited years prior. \u201cSometimes you feel like a character is ahead of you,\u201d she explains. \u201cSometimes you feel like you\u2019re both exactly at the same place. But with Beth, I had experiences in my own life where I just thought, \u2018Oh, I can sort of big sister you through this.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> landed in October 2020 \u2014 the world in lockdown, everyone at home, hungry for something different \u2014 it became one of the most watched shows in Netflix history. \u201cIt was one of those beautiful moments,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich brings us back to Australia. Back to six months of don\u2019t breathe, close your mouth, show no emotion.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe part had everything. The Mad Max<\/em> franchise, a feminist icon, a $170 million production built entirely around her. She had stood up in the theater and cheered when she saw 2015\u2019s Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>. \u201cThis was my dream,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was my dream to be in these Mad Max<\/em> movies and as this crazy feminist icon.\u201d She understood the experience would have a profound effect: \u201cI knew that I would enter Australia and leave changed. That\u2019s part of what attracted me to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat she wasn\u2019t prepared for was the stillness Miller required. He wanted Clint Eastwood-in-spaghetti-Western rigidity. For an actress whose entire instrument is propulsion, it was suffocating.<\/p>\n

\n\tEvery day, for six months, she went back to Miller and made her case for one thing. When Furiosa finally confronts the man who destroyed her life \u2014 Chris Hemsworth\u2019s Dementus \u2014 she should get to destroy him back. Not a clean kill. Something more total. Something that required Furiosa to be the one who decides.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the final version of the film, Furiosa captures Dementus, cripples him, brings him back to the Citadel. Then she plants the peach pit she has carried since childhood \u2014 a relic of the world he took from her \u2014 into his body. Years later, a tree grows from him. It bears fruit. She picks a peach from it and brings it to the wives. The man who destroyed her childhood becomes, by her hand, the source of something new.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe is careful about how much she\u2019ll say about Miller. \u201cIt\u2019s a very difficult conversation to have,\u201d she says. \u201cIf I were to be completely honest about my experience, it would hurt nobody but myself.\u201d She can look at the film now and understand what he was going for. But she is glad she got her ending.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just advocated and advocated and advocated for her to live up to her name,\u201d Taylor-Joy says. She spent the entire shoot lobbying for it. \u201cThat was my mountain on that movie, and I got it, but it was hard, hard won.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDenis Villeneuve is a very different kind of obsession. Arrival<\/em>, she says, is her comfort movie. \u201cWhen I am sad, that\u2019s what I put on.\u201d So when she found herself with Villeneuve at a party in 2022 and he told her he had written a role for her in Dune: Part Two<\/em> but that she couldn\u2019t do it \u2014 she was committed to Furiosa<\/em>, the schedules didn\u2019t align, it was simply impossible \u2014 she went, in her own words, straight to begging mode.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was devastated,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI really wanted in on the world this man had built.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo she went to Australia and made Furiosa<\/em> \u2014 and the entire shoot she kept calling her agents. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening with Dune<\/em>?\u201d They told her it was over: They were shooting that, she was shooting this, and that was that.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018It\u2019s not over. I can feel it. I know it in my gut. This is not over.\u2019 \u201d She sounded, she acknowledges now, crazy. But she was also right.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Furiosa <\/em>wrapped, Villeneuve called. Would she possibly take six flights, meet him in Abu Dhabi, continue to Namibia, shoot one scene in one day, and tell absolutely no one? She said yes before he finished the question. She brought her mom along for the trip.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s probably my favorite filmmaking experience, ever,\u201d she says. Ten people. A desert. One day. Her character Alia Atreides (sister of Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s Paul), a fan favorite who carries the voices of every Reverend Mother who came before her, was kept so secret that not even the other castmembers knew she was in the film until seconds before the world premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tFor all her constant motion, Taylor-Joy is not a runner.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Lucky Armstrong runs almost constantly across the series\u2019 seven episodes. The director, however, was not looking for athleticism. \u201cRun worse,\u201d he\u2019d tell her. \u201cYou are not somebody who is used to this. I want to see your arms flail. I want to see you struggle.\u201d After eight hours of running, she notes, the struggling took care of itself.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe had only just started working out again the month before principal photography on Lucky<\/em> began. \u201cI figured,\u201d she concedes, \u201cthat it might be good to have a base level of fitness.\u201d (She brought her stunt double from Furiosa<\/em>, Hayley Wright.) Injuries have been minimal, though she mentions almost as an aside that she\u2019s lost some hearing from gunshots fired too close to her head. She is unbothered.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not fit,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I\u2019m stubborn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe experience taught her something she hadn\u2019t expected. Witherspoon, she says, is immovable on the things she cares about \u2014 and completely pleasant about it. \u201cKindness doesn\u2019t come at the cost of her vision,\u201d Taylor-Joy says. \u201cI find that really inspiring.\u201d It was a different lesson than the one Miller had taught her, but it pointed in the same direction: Know what you want, and don\u2019t stop until you have it.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor-Joy lives technically between London and L.A. \u2014 though the L.A. part took some getting used to. For years, she told people that if she ever said she liked L.A., something had gone terribly wrong, and to take her \u201cout back and shoot\u201d her. She still can\u2019t drive.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut she has come around, in the way that people who move somewhere for love tend to come around \u2014 reluctantly, then completely. She came here for the sake of Malcolm McRae, her husband, a musician whose band Searcher is based in this city, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor-Joy has a theory about it now. \u201cNew York is a great first date,\u201d she says. \u201cNew York takes you out, shows you everything it has on offer. L.A. makes you wait for it. L.A. is like, \u2018You will take me to dinner many more times before I even show you I have a sense of humor.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there\u2019s a trip to Tolkien land, with Taylor-Joy recently cast as a new elf character in Andy Serkis\u2019 The Hunt for Gollum<\/em>. She\u2019s \u201cmoved and transported by the original films,\u201d by Peter Jackson, she says, and can\u2019t wait to \u201ctravel to Middle-earth. Being an Elf in this world is a dream come true.\u201d As for those persistent rumors of a Joni Mitchell biopic, she will neither confirm nor deny.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne recalls the hours young Taylor-Joy spent googling how people became actors: right place, right time. Years later, it\u2019s almost impossible to imagine her accepting such a passive role in her own story. This is a woman who spent six months arguing with George Miller over a character\u2019s fate; who kept calling her agents from the Australian desert insisting Dune<\/em> wasn\u2019t over long after everyone else had given up; who sees producing not as a promotion but as permission to get involved before cameras even begin to\u00a0roll.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe may have been discovered by chance. Much of what followed came from refusing to leave things to chance at all.<\/p>\n

\nThis story appeared in the June 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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