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Anya Covers Vogue Hong Kong

Magazines & Scans > Magazines from 2024 > Vogue Hong Kong (September 2024)
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Anya Taylor-Joy On Dance, Discipline & The Power Of Conviction

VOGUE HONG KONG – Anya Taylor-Joy has quickly become one of the most compelling actresses of her generation. Her upbringing across Argentina and London and her mixed heritage has infused her craft with a worldly insight. “I see everything as an opportunity to learn rather than an opportunity to judge.” she shares. “Life is more fun that way.”

Tucked away in the heart of downtown LA, a nondescript sliding gate gives way to a lofty, cavernous warehouse. There’s a makeshift classroom in one room. In another, shelves filled with stereo TVs. A vintage Cadillac Eldorado is stationed out back, gleaming in the California sun. This was the set of Anya Taylor-Joy’s cover shoot for Vogue Hong Kong – a shoot so groundbreaking that it was shaken by the 4.4 magnitude earthquake that also rattled the rest of Los Angeles.

Strolling on to the Vogue Hong Kong set, Taylor-Joy’s wide doe eyes reveal a piercing intensity. Stark blonde locks are contrasted with a delicate bounce and gentle curl. Her stately, elegant frame is punctuated by sharp angles – defined collarbones, a pointed jaw. And then she breaks into laughter, and all that felt untouchable is softened instantly by a wide, generous smile and sunny laugh. She’s barely had time to introduce herself, but her presence is undeniable.
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on Sep 02, 2024

Anya is ELLE Australia’s September Cover Star

Magazines & Scans > Magazines from 2024 > ELLE Australia (September 2024)
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ELLE AUSTRALIA – Anya Taylor-Joy is on top of the world. As she takes her place in the new guard of Hollywood superstars, she speaks to Grace O’Neill about fashion, being a fish out of water and the unexpected joys of marriage.

It takes something—or someone—pretty formidable to overshadow Anya Taylor-Joy, one of her generation’s most talented actors and, as of this year, a newly minted Hollywood megastar. Still, as the crew gathers to begin shooting this ELLE Australia cover, everyone only has eyes for a long-haired chihuahua puppy that must weigh in at less than a kilogram. “This is Bartok the Magnificent,” declares Taylor-Joy as we sit down for our interview. The new puppy, who she picked up only two days ago, is nestled sleepily in her lap. His name is taken from the 1997 animated movie Anastasia, a historical fantasy about the murder of Russia’s imperial family in the 1920s. Bartok the Magnificent is a street-performing albino bat and sidekick of the vengeful sorcerer Rasputin. This anecdote might go some way to capturing the magic of Anya Taylor-Joy, who is fiercely talented, bitingly intelligent and face-from-the-gods beautiful, but also a little bit off-the-wall, in the way the best people always are.

“My husband and I definitely wanted to get more animals,” the 28-year-old says. (Taylor-Joy and her husband, musician Malcolm McRae, already have a cat, a ragdoll called Kitsune, who Taylor-Joy adopted while in Australia filming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga). “We were going to get a bigger dog, but our friend sent us a picture of [Bartok] and was like, ‘I just feel like this is your baby.’ We went back and forth on it a lot, because this was happening during the Furiosa press tour, and I was like, I don’t know how I’m going to cope with it. But now he’s here, and, you know what? He’s so good. And he’s really, really brave. I continue to be afraid by how tiny he is, but he runs up to all the other dogs and just wants to play. He’s dreamy, amazing.” He’s also a surprisingly adept model. And who better to lens your first fashion shoot than world-renowned photographer Pamela Hanson?
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on Aug 29, 2024

Flaunt Magazine

Magazines & Scans > Magazines from 2024 > Flaunt (2024)
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Anya Taylor-Joy | That Nomadic Depth of Feeling

FLAUNT – “It was definitely the bloodiest and dirtiest I have ever been in my life,” laughs actor Anya Taylor-Joy, recounting her “war stories” from the set of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in which she stars as the titular lead. “I remember looking at my makeup artist at one point and saying, ‘I am filthy right now!’” she recalls, sharing nothing prepared her—not even her annual trips to Glastonbury, her favorite festival, where she’s well-used to being knee-deep in mud and grime.

Taylor-Joy is almost unrecognizable in the film, covered in the deep red earth of Australia’s outback where filming took place. It’s a far cry from how she looks this morning when we speak, freshly cleansed and make-up-free, her long, recently washed hair still drying. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road and the fifth installment of the Mad Max franchise that began in 1979, all co-written and directed by Australian filmmaker George Miller. They’re filmed in various rural locations across Australia where extreme heat comes as standard, as does dust and dirt from outback wildernesses that neatly double for Miller’s dystopian, post-apocalyptic near-future.

The wild landscape Taylor-Joy found herself in felt even more apocalyptic, she says, because filming took place during deep-COVID-19 lockdown and she didn’t see anyone who wasn’t cast or crew for six months. “It was a very trippy experience,” she says. “There were moments when I realized I hadn’t seen a single person who [wasn’t] a part of the film for months.”

At the end of each day, she returned to Sydney’s eerily deserted streets and her rented apartment with only a kitten for company. She especially missed her “big Latin family,” made up of her Spanish mother, Argentine father, and her five older siblings. Today, family is closer to home as we’re talking at her parents’ house in London. She looks bright-eyed, happy and relaxed as she sits in a comfy chair with her legs hunched up, nursing a morning coffee. She’s “thrilled” to have some rare time off with them over the next few days.
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on May 24, 2024

Anya Covers Vogue Australia

Magazines & Scans > Magazines from 2024 > Vogue Australia (June 2024)
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Anya Taylor-Joy on ‘Furiosa,’ marriage and falling in love with Australia

VOGUE AUSTRALIA – This time two years ago, Anya Taylor-Joy was knee-deep in the rust-red earth of Broken Hill making the epic Furiosa. During the five months of production, Taylor-Joy fell in love with Australia and in particular Sydney, seeking out secret harbourside beaches, seeing movies at the Randwick Ritz, walking most Sundays from her rental in Paddington all the way to Newtown. Taylor-Joy has barely been back in the city for 24 hours and already she’s visited SWOP, the thrift store in Darlinghurst, and bought an oversized T-shirt emblazoned with Remy, the cartoon character from Ratatouille.

Today, the 28-year-old fashion darling—she is Dior’s global ambassador for women’s fashion and beauty, house ambassador for Tiffany & Co. and global ambassador for Jaeger Le-Coultre—is wearing her new purchase like a dress, accessorised with a pair of molten gold Tiffany & Co. cuffs. Sitting opposite Taylor-Joy in her hotel suite, among the breakfast detritus (fruit platter and an empty French press) is her Furiosa co-star, Chris Hemsworth. As the pair prepare to share their Mad Max prequel with the world, we listen in on their wide-ranging conversation.

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by Jessica

on May 22, 2024

Anya for British GQ

Magazines & Scans > Magazines from 2024 > British GQ (Heroes Issue 2024)
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s Dark Material

BRITISH GQ – Naturally, the setting is supernatural. Rain is streaking from a sky cloaked in darkness, our meeting point a bronze statue of Diana the Huntress firing an arrow. Of course, she really does seem to come out of thin air, dressed in all black and flanked by sheets of white-blonde hair that in the grey light have the glow of a planetary eclipse. And, needless to say, she has no umbrella, no hat, no raincoat – not even a protective cloud-for-one drifting above her – but still seems both weirdly dry and glacially unperturbed.

Anya Taylor-Joy – whose career of playing satanic witches and demigods from dusty planets has apparently armed her against the elements – touches down on earth in the spectral gloom of Hyde Park’s rose garden. It is a miserable March afternoon. Even the ducks are exhibiting symptoms of late-onset seasonal affective disorder. We leave in search of shelter, my umbrella contorting inside out. Emerging through the mist are two bedraggled children, clinging onto their ponies in a scene spun from the bizarre hellscapes of Hieronymus Bosch. Taylor-Joy had originally wanted us to go horse riding today, something she learned to do as a child living in Buenos Aires, even before she could walk. She spots the children, who look even more miserable than the ducks, and says wistfully, “That could be us.”

Anya Taylor-Joy thrives in this kind of situation. Or, verbatim: “I feckin’ love this shit.” When she was 18 and on the set of her first film, Robert Eggers’ 2015 pilgrim horror The Witch, she enjoyed helping to drag camera gear out of the mud and wrangle one of her troublesome scene partners (a badly behaved goat named Charlie). Making that film with such a small budget taught her how good it felt to be useful, something she still holds onto now. Taylor-Joy never complains. Actually, that’s not true. She did complain once making Eggers’ Gladiator-with-vikings epic The Northman, but she was in freezing mud up to her knees, and she’d been in a field for an hour, and so could they please start rolling? At which point everyone realised, Shit, she must be really cold.
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