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19 Oct

Anya Taylor-Joy Infiltrates the Boys’ Club of Chess in The Queen’s Gambit

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Netflix’s period piece miniseries The Queen’s Gambit spans a decade in the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a wunderkind whose natural aptitude for anticipating her opponents’ moves is blunted by her addiction to the tranquilizer pills with which she credits her wins. Following gawky teenage Beth through her early tournaments in the 1950s to the aloof redheaded beauty wowing spectators in Europe in the ’60s—and leaving a trail of defeated men in her wake—the seven-hour series was faced with the challenge of making every chess scene equally thrilling to enthusiasts and non-fans alike. The key, Taylor-Joy…
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13 Oct

Furiosa Movie Casts Anya Taylor-Joy as Lead, Adds Chris Hemsworth, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

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It seems George Miller’s Furiosa, a prequel movie to Mad Max: Fury Road, is about ready to put it into drive. And its cast is providing a lot of horsepower out of the gate, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Chris Hemsworth all also joining the new film set in the ‘Mad Max’ universe. The casting of Taylor-Joy is not entirely a surprise since Miller has made clear for the last year that he intended to cast a younger actor in her 20s to portray Furiosa’s origin story. While this has been bittersweet for fans, and Charlize Theron who…
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24 Sep

The Queen’s Gambit Full Trailer Arrives for Anya Taylor-Joy’s Netflix Series

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The Queen’s Gambit, a television miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name, progresses toward an October arrival on Netflix, auspiciously touting a headliner in rising star Anya Taylor-Joy. Creators Scott Frank (Godless) and Allan Scott (The Witches) wrote the serial television adaptation, which Frank directed for its 7-episode frame. The story of The Queen’s Gambit centers on orphaned young American woman Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy), who endured a rough and cynical upbringing by embracing the game of chess, becoming a prodigious player who starts to dominate the competition circuit, and eventually reaches international levels. However, her story…
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27 Mar

Mad Max Spinoff Furiosa Movie Eyes Anya Taylor-Joy for Lead Role

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The coronavirus pandemic has not just delayed the release of several current or upcoming movies; it’s ground the wheels of development and/or film production to almost a total halt. Some studios and filmmakers, however, are trying to do as much work as they can remotely on future projects so that when physical production can eventually resume, they are ready to hit the ground running. And seriously what would badass Furiosa think of George Miller if he just closed-up shop on a Mad Max universe movie entirely? Yep, one of the projects trying to work around COVID-19 in a responsible way…
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02 Mar

Anya Taylor-Joy and Bringing ‘Questionable Intent’ to Jane Austen

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There are moments when Anya Taylor-Joy is still jolted awake in the middle of the night with a strange epiphany: she played Emma Woodhouse. To be sure, the English and Argentine actor is aware she donned the costumes of Jane Austen’s most devilish heroine only last year. She also knows she is doing press for the finished film when we meet one brisk morning outside Central Park. But sitting on a drawing room couch, and underneath a comfy-looking blanket, the star is reflective about what a whirlwind it’s been jumping into her first comedy—and an adaptation of a beloved yet…
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08 Dec

The Rape of Recy Taylor

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The Rape of Recy Taylor is the epic story of sexual violence in Jim Crow South. It is the little-known story of courageous black women who waged war to take back their bodies and their dignity, and whose vocal protests helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement 10 years later. Boldly speaking up against her rapists and putting her life and that of her family?s in grave danger, Recy Taylor attracted the attention of the NAACP and their chief investigator Rosa Parks. Parks, commonly believed to be a tired seamstress who refused to give up her seat on the bus in…
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