Anya’s new role may put you off your breakfast
ANYA Taylor-Joy proves she has the acting chops (if not the lamb chops) to match up to double Oscar-winner Ralph Fiennes in The Menu, a forthcoming culinary horror film set in a fancy restaurant on an island (and no, cannibalism is not on the menu).
Taylor-Joy plays the girlfriend of a young foodie (Nicholas Hoult).
She’s brought along for the night and is far from impressed by the pretentiousness of the food — or the violence that follows it.
The film was written and directed by the Succession team, and has attracted positive reviews after premiering in Toronto last week.
Anya and the rest of the cast were required to stay in character throughout the six-week shoot; and the actors playing the kitchen staff — including Fiennes, as sinister Chef Slowik — were trained by Dominique Crenn, the only woman in America to have been awarded three Michelin stars (for her San Francisco restaurant Atelier Crenn). Taylor-Joy has just finished filming the new Mad Max prequel, Furiosa, in Australia.