Anya attended the Hollywood stunt and screening event for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on Wednesday (May 8) in Los Angeles, California. Take a look below!
Anya has graced the cover of the latest issue of Variety! Check out the photos and article below.
Witness Anya Taylor-Joy: The ‘Furiosa’ Star on Making the ‘Mad Max’ Icon Her Own and Hopes for ‘Dune 3’
VARIETY – If you want to become a dystopian feminist warrior, you’re not going to get much sleep. That was one of the first things Anya Taylor-Joy learned on the set of George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Under heavy coats of makeup, shooting in the Australian winter when daylight was scarce, Taylor-Joy wished she could have stayed in bed at least through the crack of dawn. Instead, she’d rise up in the middle of the night, ready to do battle.
“I had the earliest call time of my life: 1:45 a.m.,” the 28-year-old actress says on a recent Los Angeles afternoon. “I’d be like, ‘I just wrapped! What do you mean?! It’s a mistake!’” Taylor-Joy recalls the painful mornings now with a gleeful theater-kid energy. She chronicled her entire transformation as Furiosa, and took photos of her various makeup tests. She flips through her phone to show me.
The photos are startling: Of course Furiosa, whom viewers first met when she was played by Charlize Theron in 2015’s “Fury Road,” lives a rough-and- tumble life — she’s fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world governed by road warriors. But the grit and grime covering Taylor-Joy’s face suggests hours in the makeup chair. “You will not believe how dirty I had to be for it to read on camera.” She pulls up a picture. “The first time I looked at myself in the mirror”— she fake gasps — “I was like, ‘Whoa!’ I looked like a creature from the Black Lagoon.” She’s covered in globs of brown and gory red. “That’s seven layers,” she says. “Of course, there’s blood — I’m always the ‘More blood!’ girl.”
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On Monday (May 6), Anya attended the photocall and press conference for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at St. Regis Hotel in Mexico City, Mexico.
Entertainment Weekly‘s latest digital issue features Anya and Chris Hemsworth for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Take a look at the photoshoot and article below!
Hitting the Fury Road: Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth go inside Furiosa, their full-throttle Mad Max prequel
EW – Witness this: On a bustling set at Quixote Studios in West Hollywood, just days before Oscars Sunday in March, cans of “guzzoline” are strewn about. What looks like a real missile lies on the floor, scrap metal is everywhere — including a wrecking ball and throwing spears — shades of red and orange light up a giant backdrop so bright you can almost feel the heat coming off of it, and the mechanical whirring of power tools reverberates in the distance.
This isn’t the set of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, though you’d be forgiven for thinking it could be. After all, stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth are here, and so is Furiosa’s car, Cranky Black, which is fittingly billowing angry smoke.
But some things are off. For starters, Hemsworth, 40, wants clarification on a shot because he admittedly knows nothing about the inner workings of cars — not ideal for anyone looking to survive the high-octane Wasteland of the apocalyptic Mad Max universe. Then there’s the fact that in between takes, Taylor-Joy, 28, and her costar joke around with goofy poses for the camera, a far cry, as Hemsworth points out, from the “definitely antagonistic” relationship between their characters, Furiosa and Dementus. As he puts it, “She’s trying to kill me this whole movie.”
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