Her next move
This time two years ago, Anya Taylor-Joy was knee-deep in the rust-red earth of Broken Hill making the epic Furiosa. During the five months of production, Taylor-Joy fell in love with Australia and in particular Sydney, seeking out secret harbourside beaches, seeing movies at the Randwick Ritz, walking most Sundays from her rental in Paddington all the way to Newtown. Taylor-Joy has barely been back in the city for 24 hours and already she's visited SWOP, the thrift store in Darlinghurst, and bought an oversized T-shirt emblazoned with Remy, the cartoon character from Ratatouille. Today, the 28-year-old fashion darling – she is Dior's global ambassador for women's fashion and beauty, house ambassador for Tiffany & Co. and global ambassador for Jaeger Le-Coultre – is wearing her new purchase like a dress, accessorised with a pair of molten gold Tiffany & Co. cuffs. Sitting opposite Taylor-Joy in her hotel suite, among the breakfast detritus (fruit platter and an empty French press) is her Furiosa co-star, Chris Hemsworth. As the pair prepare to share their Mad Max prequel with the world, we listen in on their wide-ranging conversation.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH: “Anya, here we are in Sydney again. How does it feel to be back?”
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY: “Amazing. I didn't realise how well I know this city. Yesterday, we were walking around and I was like, oh, I don't use Google Maps here at all. My feet just know the way.”
CH: “What do you remember about meeting [director] George [Miller] for the first time?”
“I got a text
