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George Miller and Anya Taylor-Joy attend the Furiosa: A Mad Max

des Festivals on May 15, 2024 in Cannes, France. Saga Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais ©Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Anya Taylor-Joy can play the role of the Austenian horror movie). In it, she plays Sandie, the queen of Swinging
heroine in films like Emma and that of the young Furiosa London nights and clubs. It’s hard to forget seeing her
in George Miller’s wild, eponymous action film presented twirling around and singing Downtown, the famous Tony
at the Cannes Film Festival 2024 with equal elegance and Hatch song brought to success by Petula Clarke, in a
effectiveness. persuasive voice, driving men and women crazy.
She can hold her own and checkmate acting masters For that matter, music is clearly an important part of
such as Ralph Fiennes, with whom she starred in The Menu, Anya Taylor-Joy’s life: not only did she appear in the video
a horror-like but mostly satire of contemporary obsessions clips of GTA’s Red Lips (Skrillex remix) and Hozier’s Dinner
with haute cuisine and fancy chefs, and she can step aside & Diatribes, but she married Malcolm McRae, the front man
and act as a supportive colleague, like she did with Christian of rock band More. This was done in great secrecy, as there
Bale, John David Washington and Margot Robbie in David is always precious little known about her private life. In the
O. Russell’s Amsterdam. era of people overexposing themselves on social media,
The best so far, however, is Anya Taylor-Joy in Edgar this not only adds to her mysterious appeal, but is also a
Wright’s much underrated film Last Night in Soho (also a sign of great intelligence.

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