We Had 16 Burning Questions For Anya Taylor-Joy, And Here’s What She Had To Say

Who’s someone that has made you starstruck?

Anya: I didn’t realise I was going to be doing the press day for this movie with Jack Black, so when I read that, the sound that came out of me was just this high pitch shriek that I was not expecting! We haven’t met each other because we all recorded our parts individually, so I was super starstruck when I saw the schedule for today. I very seldom get like that, but I was just running around earlier like, ‘oh my God, Tenacious D, this is amazing’.

That’s amazing! Did you happen to watch School Of Rock as a kid?

Anya: Yeah, at the school I went to when I first moved to London they would play School of Rock every Friday. At that time, I didn’t really speak much English, if any, so that and Harry Potter and Jumanji are like how I learned English!

What is something you wish you could change about the industry?

Anya: This isn’t an industry thing, it’s a world thing, but I wish everybody respected each other more and had more time and tolerance for everyone’s own experience. I think there’s a phrase, and I’ve forgotten it now, but it’s basically the term for understanding that everybody has a world as complex as their own. I wish people walked around with an understanding of that, and wanted to help each other out more.