Coming up at 10am: The Queen’s Gambit actor anyataylorjoy speaks to emmabarnett about her new film, The Northman, female friendships and why we all need to be talking about taboo subjects more.
Sixty-two million households watched Anya Taylor-Joy play chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix mini-series 'The Queen’s Gambit'. She discusses her latest film.The debate over sex and gender filters through to many areas of our lives today whether its about women only spaces, trans athletes competing in sporting events or our use of language to define what a woman is.
Anya Taylor-Joy's decision to leave school at 16 to pursue a career in acting has certainly paid off. In 2020, in the first month of its release – a staggering sixty-two million households watched her play chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix mini-series 'The Queen’s Gambit'. More recently, you may have seen her play Gina Gray in the final series of 'Peaky Blinders'. She discusses her latest film – The Northman - a brutal and bloody viking revenge epic.
The artist Celia Paul currently has an exhibition at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London, called Memory and Desire, and her latest book is called “Letters to Gwen John”. Gwen John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her brother Augustus John was more famous during her lifetime, but her beautiful paintings, mainly of female sitters, often reading in domestic settings, have gained wider attention since her death.
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