Anya Taylor-joy almost quit acting before ‘The Queen’s Gambit’
ANYA Taylor-joy says she nearly quit acting before landing her role in The Queen’s Gambit.
The 25-year-old has won acclaim for her role as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix series, but said she considered walking away from the industry after some “emotional relationship stuff” and was persuaded not to by her Emma co-star, Mia Goth.
“I had been working back to back – just before Emma, I’d done two projects at the same time, and I was going through some emotional stuff,” she said. “At the beginning of 2019, I was really broken and frightened of everything, and Mia and I were driving back from rehearsal.
“I turned to her and said: ‘I’m going to quit acting. I don’t think I can do this.i think I need to back out now and just let it be and try to take care of my heart.’ And she was like: ‘No, that would be really bad. You can’t not have the thing that is your oxygen.’
“I’m really glad she said that.” Anya also discussed her bond with Mia and how they promised to support each other, with the New Mutants star, saying: “She was the first actress close to my age I met, and we had a conversation where I was like, ‘I love you,’ and she said, ‘I love you’. And I said, ‘I’m always going to have your back.’
“She was like, ‘I’m always going to have your back.’
“It was like, ‘OK, cool. Let’s progress in this very wild industry, knowing that we’re going to take care of each other’.” |