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Witness Anya Taylor-Joy: The ‘Furiosa’ Star on Making the ‘Mad Max’ Icon Her Own and Hopes for ‘Dune 3’
Anya Taylor-Joy, who stars in "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," on making the iconic character her own, and her hopes about "Dune 3."
After beginning his career with the first three installments of the “Mad Max” saga, from 1979 to 1985, Australian director Miller lightened up, making the oddball comedy “The Witches of Eastwick,” the weepie “Lorenzo’s Oil,” and movies in the “Babe” and “Happy Feet” franchises, about lovable pigs and penguins. And in 2015, a year in which the box office would be dominated by the CGI-ridden “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Jurassic World” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Miller’s practical-effects-driven “Fury Road” offered something different: a propulsive survival thriller whose ultimate special effect lay in its human-scale stakes. She continued her scream-queen run as a kidnap victim with surprising inner strength in M. Night Shyamalan’s late-2000s thrillers “Split” and “Glass.” And her eyes captivated the world in October 2020, when Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” made chess — and Taylor-Joy’s portrayal of a complicated, frustrating genius — feel layered and riveting.
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