Participating in a Disney series has been the catapult for a good number of stars and a goal that thousands of teenagers dream of. Anya Taylor-Joy in fact, she could have been the lead in her own Disney Channel series, but instead she decided to gamble to shoot ‘The Witch’ with Robert Eggers and start her career on a very different foot.
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s career could have taken completely opposite directions, since at the time She almost starred in a Disney Channel series. As the actress explained to Harper’s Bazaar, she found herself with two proposals at the same time, one from Disney and the other from Robert Eggers to star in ‘The Witch’.
“I remember it was the same day I was asked to be in a pilot for the Disney Channel, and it was so exciting to be offered anything that I ran around the house like crazy,” Taylor-Joy said. “But I had this really good feeling about ‘The Witch’ that made me want to forget about the Disney experience for something that felt very unfamiliar, something that felt sacred.”
Do ‘The witch’ It was a good decision that ended up catapulting her career, because ‘Lady’s Gambit’, ‘Last Night in Soho’ and ‘The Man from the North’ would come after, which brought her together again with Eggers.
“It gave me the basics for how I work now, which is essentially the idea that there is no hierarchy on set: you work hard, you put effort into your scenes, and you don’t assume that nobody is going to do it for you,” the actress continued. “Your title doesn’t end in being an actor, you are a creative in the film, that’s how you need to approach it.”