Anya Taylor-Joy Sends Fan Expectations Sky High with First Look at Iconic Mad Max Prequel ‘Furiosa’
American actress Anya Taylor-Joy is best known for her portrayal of the orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon who struggles with drugs and alcohol on her way to the top of the chess world in the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit, which earned her a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Anya Taylor-Joy made her television debut with a role in the 2015 British detective drama series Endeavour. Her breakthrough role came in the same year through her appearance in the Robert Eggers’ period horror The Witch. Recently, she has been cast as the titular character of the upcoming George Miller movie Furiosa, and the first look has effectively sent fans into a frenzy.
Anya Taylor-Joy’s First Look as Furiosa Has Set the Bar High for the Movie
George Miller’s Furiosa is a prequel to the 2015 post-apocalyptic dystopian action film Mad Max: Fury Road. This prequel is also a spin-off of Fury Road, in which Tom Brady starred as the titular character Mad Max and Charlize Theron starred as Imperator Furiosa.
Warner Bros. booth at the CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil this weekend has unveiled Anya Taylor-Joy‘s new look as Furiosa, and Collider‘s Steve Weintraub, who was there at the event, managed to get some pictures of the marvelous images put on display for the upcoming movie. Following the release of the images on the internet, fans’ expectations of the movie have obviously gone up.
That looks 🔥. This film will be intriguing. pic.twitter.com/N3bPGiEA1R
— CMac (@TurtleMac24) November 29, 2023
Sounds interesting, haven’t heard about this before but definitely first look is interesting.
— Idksamad onlypain (@IdkSamad) November 29, 2023
This movie got a lot of potential…
— Alejandro (@Alejo1986SC) November 30, 2023
This will be a sure hit…
— Taser ///🕯️🕯️🕯️👀 (@Tokewitch) November 30, 2023
might be the best movie ever made
— joel (@_kuyve) November 29, 2023
Given how great George Miller is as a filmmaker and how good Mad Max: Fury Road was, it is not wrong to expect Furiosa to be a massive hit with the audience as well as the critics.
Anya Taylor-Joy Impressed George Miller in the First Audition Itself
Furiosa will be exploring the origin of the character Furiosa, and how she became an Imperator for Immortan Joe. Anya Taylor-Joy is not the only star attached to the project as Marvel star Chris Hemsworth will also be seen in the movie. Reportedly, he is going to portray one of the two warlords, more details about his role are currently under tight wraps and possibly, won’t be revealed until at least the trailer is released.
George Miller was impressed with Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance in an early cut of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. Upon Wright’s insistence, he contacted the actress for the lead role of Furiosa. The audition had to be done virtually because of the pandemic, and even so, The Menu star impressed the director in her first attempt.
In an interview with Empire magazine, Miller explained how good Taylor-Joy was, saying:
“I said to her, ‘I’d like you to do a very simple test, which is read something to camera. And it was the speech from ‘Network.’ The ‘I’m mad as hell’ speech. Apart from the brilliance of the writing, it’s a piece that can be done to camera. It doesn’t need an acting partner. Anya did one version, which was really good. Then I gave her just a couple of simple notes about intention and she just absolutely nailed [it].”
Although Furiosa‘s production is complete, Warner Bros. has scheduled it for release in late May 2024 so that it can be a part of the competition with other big summer releases of the year.
