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Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy says ‘I’m too weird-looking and not beautiful enough to be a star’
She was discovered by a modeling scout, went on to win film and television roles, and now stars in The Queen’s Gambit.
Anya Taylor-Joy, on the other hand, has stated that she does not consider herself to be ‘beautiful enough’ to be cast in films, and has even labeled herself as ‘ugly.’
“I have never and don’t think I will ever think of myself as beautiful,” Anya told The Sun. She added, “it sounds pathetic and my boyfriend warns me people will think I’m an absolute d*** for saying these things,” but she maintains that she is “weird-looking.”
She went on to say: “I won’t go to the cinema to watch my own film, I’ll watch it before. The beauty of being in your own skin is that you don’t have to look at your own face.”
The actress went on to say that when she was cast in the title part in the Jane Austen adaption Emma, she ‘genuinely had a panic attack.’
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‘I thought, ‘I am the first ugly Emma, and I can’t do this,” she felt at the time, ‘because the first line in the movie is, “I’m handsome, clever and rich”.’
Anya Taylor-Joy has become an early frontrunner for nearly every television award event under the sun as a result of The Queen’s Gambit, and with her popularity only poised to soar even higher in the coming years, she’ll have to get accustomed to the concept of becoming a movie star.
Since she was six years old, Anya has aspired to be an actor.
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She told her mother, an African-Spanish psychologist, and father, a Scottish-Argentine powerboat racer, that she wanted to be an actress while she was in primary school.
Sarah Doukas, a famed model scout, first saw the lovely actress outside London’s Harrods retail complex. Anya, who was 16 at the time, was signed up with the Storm modeling agency, which gave her access to the world of acting. Despite this, the actress continues to focus on embracing herself as she is: “I have made it a practice in my life to not turn down compliments.”
M. Night Shyamalan’s blockbusters Glass and Split, BBC One’s Peaky Blinders, and BBC’s adaptation of Jessie Burton’s best-selling novel The Miniaturist are among Taylor-acting Joy’s credits.
Edgar Wright’s thriller Last Night in Soho, in which she portrays a young lady enthusiastic about fashion design who inexplicably enters the 1960s and meets her idol, and a cinematic version of Francesca Lia Block’s novel Weetzie Bat are among her next projects.
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