Actor Anya Taylor-Joy’s breakout film was 2015’s The Witch, as she would go on to join a number of other genre projects before earning immense praise for her Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, but she recently revealed that she was “devastated” by watching her own performance and her follow-up projects nearly saw her quit acting entirely.
” showed us the film maybe two hours before the audience screening, and I was devastated,” Taylor-Joy revealed to The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.
She added, “What it was about is it took me a second to realize that the people around me weren’t working the way that I was working.
To say the actor was busy in the following years would be an understatement, as being in The Witch also resulted in her starring in Morgan, Thoroughbreds, Marrowbone, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The New Mutants, and Peaky Blinders, among other projects.