

It sounds pathetic and my boyfriend warns me people will think I’m an absolute d*** for saying these things, but I just think I’m weird-looking."Īnya added, “I won’t go to the cinema to watch my own film, I’ll watch it before. “I don’t think I’m beautiful enough to be in films. “I have never and I don’t think I will ever think of myself as beautiful," Anya said in a new interview with The Sun. The 24-year-old actress sadly doesn't think she's beautiful enough to be a movie star, though we definitely disagree.

Still, the entire cast-which includes Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Harry Melling, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram and more-pulled out stellar performances.Anya Taylor-Joy is the star of Netflix's smash hit series The Queen's Gambit and she's opening up about her physical appearance in a new interview. Next up? Anya is nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie category for the 2021 Emmys.Īnd this critical acclaim is well deserved, as her performance had us itching to learn chess. The drama series is based off Walter Tevis' 1983 novel of the same name, and is a hit among critics.Īnya won the Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie award at the 2021 Golden Globes and the Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie prize at the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

But the theory and then applying that theory are two very different things."

On learning chess for the role, Anya told Seth Meyers, "I had to learn, like, understand chess for myself because I felt that people care about it so much that I couldn't just show up and not understand the theory of it. As E! readers surely know, The Queen's Gambit follows Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) as she transforms from stoic orphan to cutthroat chess player. The final quote of Netflix's The Queen's Gambit has sat with us long after we've digested the cast's tour de force performances.
