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‘Furiosa’ Star Alyla Browne on Getting the Role of Young Anya Taylor-Joy by Doing the Splits and Seeing the R-Rated Film Despite Being 14: ‘I’m in It, So I’m Allowed!’
Alyla Brown, who plays a young Anya Taylor-Joy in 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,' on her A-list on-screen family tree and reuniting with George Miller
“It’s absolutely insane,” notes the teen, now juggling her studies with her first trip to Cannes for the world premiere of the one of the year’s most highly anticipated films (thankfully, she attends a performing arts school in Sydney, so they’re quite understanding). Between takes while shooting “Three Thousand Years of Longing” in late 2020 — “in an old mental asylum of all places,” she notes — Browne began doing the middle splits, where both legs are stretched out to the side to create a 180 angle (or as near as possible to it). By mid-2022, Browne was out shooting on the scorched post-apocalyptic “Mad Max”-y wastelands of Australia’s outback, sharing scenes with Chris Hemsworth as a young girl snatched by a biker horde and performing various stunts (including a fall down a rock face).
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