After his launch to stardom after his success The Queen’s Gambit – and quickly followed that up with some major film roles – Anya Taylor-Joy returns to the small screen with her new series lucky.
In the Apple show, produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Taylor-Joy plays a reformed con artist who is forced to go on the run, in an attempt to leave her life of crime behind her forever. Witherspoon called the star and asked to produce the series — based on Marissa Stapley’s 2021 novel of the same name — together, as Taylor-Joy felt “I had something to offer, I had work that would serve the story well.”
She said Hollywood Reporter At the premiere in Los Angeles, she said that her return to television “sounds great” because “it gives you the opportunity to spend more time with these characters and kind of showcase the video game of the story; you get seven hours instead of two.” Having recently played the action hero in 2024 Furiosa: The Mad Max Sagashe had the sexy chops, but she had to approach the role completely differently.
“I’ve been very fortunate to play characters who are the best in their field in everything you do, and what that gives you is a certain level of security in the sequences, because you make everything so fluid,” Taylor-Joy explained. “with lucky“Hit everything,” I was told. “I want it dirty, I want you to jump off walls, so the only way to do that is to throw yourself upside down. By the end of it, I felt like I ran through all of California.”
The series also features a star-studded supporting cast, with Drew Starkey playing Taylor-Joy’s husband and Annette Bening as a dangerous mob boss on her trail.
Starkey, who filmed the show immediately before filming the final season of the series External banksTaylor-Joy herself said that she asked him to come play the role, even though they had never known each other before.
He said of the star: “She is an amazing leader, the true definition of a leader. She leads with love and you can feel the respect everyone has for her.” “She’s a hard worker but she keeps things light on set. I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t do what she did. I was so influenced by her; I have a hard time acting, just acting enough is like, ‘I can’t do this.'”
lucky It begins streaming Wednesday on Apple TV.
