In case you missed the memo, Taylor-Joy, thanks to her portrayal of Beth Harmon, a fictional 1960s chess prodigy, in The Queen’s Gambit, has become a very big deal.
Martha Hayes spoke to her about fame, films and fashion
thetimes.co.uk/article/anya-t…
Martha Hayes spoke to her about fame, films and fashion
thetimes.co.uk/article/anya-t…
When @TheSTStyle first interviewed her in 2016, following her breakthrough in the cult horror film The Witch, she had 3,991 Twitter followers and was about to star in M Night Shyamalan’s Split. She has now made an astonishing 16 films and has eight million Instagram followers.
Her latest role – as a global brand ambassador for Dior – should come as a surprise to precisely no one. Well, no one except maybe Taylor-Joy herself.
A whirlwind year of red carpet appearances wearing Dior has proved a “crazy education in fashion.”
A whirlwind year of red carpet appearances wearing Dior has proved a “crazy education in fashion.”
“I’m not very good at showing off. I look like a 12-year-old boy 99% of the time,” says Taylor-Joy. “When I was a teenager I would accrue clothes from my dad or brother because I wasn’t much of a shopper. I still wear one of my dad’s check shirts.”
Born in Miami and raised in Argentina until she was six, when her family moved to Knightsbridge in London, Taylor-Joy describes her affluent upbringing as the youngest of six siblings as “nomadic, eclectic and full of love”.
She grew up fast, having left school, where she was bullied, at the age of 16 to pursue acting with the full support of her parents. “I’ve definitely done better in this industry because I had no curiosity about anything that was potentially harmful to my career.”
Taylor-Joy has always protected her private life, but she is understandably more cautious now the paparazzi regularly chase her down the street. “There are definitely moments when I’m like, ‘Am I going to become a recluse? Am I not going to go outside any more?’ ” she says
She won’t confirm whether or not she has a partner, although she has been linked to the American musician Malcolm McRae, with whom she has been spotted numerous times.
Do the tabloids bother her?
“You have to pick your battles. If everything was constantly bothering you, you’d be miserable. There are definitely times when my friends just won’t tell me something. They’re like, ‘She doesn’t need to know that.’ And I’m like, ‘That works for me!’”
“You have to pick your battles. If everything was constantly bothering you, you’d be miserable. There are definitely times when my friends just won’t tell me something. They’re like, ‘She doesn’t need to know that.’ And I’m like, ‘That works for me!’”
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