Anya Taylor-Joy covers the May 2021 issue of Elle, which boasts a theme of “Rising Stars.” In a wide-ranging interview, the “Emma” star opens about how being bullied as a child placed her on a path toward acting, and shares her thoughts about a potential second season of her acclaimed Netflix hit “The Queen’s Gambit”.
As Taylor-Joy recalls, she had a solitary childhood. “I joke about this, but I’m kind of serious when I say that the characters in the Harry Potter books were my friends.
I spent the first two years in England playing hand-clap games with plants — if you slap them hard enough, they clap back — and learning how to read.