Anya Taylor-Joy: 'Whenever I’ve got a girlfriend role, I’ve sent it back'

Pretty chilled. Doing press for this movie has actually been pretty wonderful because people are receiving it so well.

How do you think you’d manage doing a whole load of press for a movie people didn’t like or one that you didn’t like?

I’ve often thought about it actually, because at the beginning, when I first started doing press, there’s no way of preparing for it, so I used to give myself a really hard time and I would think ‘thank God I love the film’ – because otherwise it would be stressful. It’s fun to talk about a movie like this where it is quite dark and funny.

Movies-wise, I’d love to be able to say that I’ve thought about it and I had a whole trajectory planned, but I didn’t. I was just connected to my characters and they happened to inhabit very dark worlds. Fiction-wise, though, and in my own self, I love fairytales, the Hans Christian Andersen ones. I think there’s such a humanity in darkness and pain. In terms of working in movies, it’s really fun to play out dark stuff because you get to feel out the extent of your emotions and your brackets of what’s acceptable are so much wider in those types of films so it’s fun to play.

Source: theguardian