Before that, she had just finished filmingAutumn de Wilde’sEmma, with only one day off in between.
Needless to say, she was a bit worn out.
I was so relieved.
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She instantly switched gears, and she could do that on set all the time.
She’s a real pro."
And maybe five minutes into the walk, I started running, and I do not run.
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I was bursting with ideas, and passion, and excitement, and I just ran into the restaurant.
Luckily Scott was totally into my unbridled enthusiasm."
“She’s the character that I’ve had the least amount of skin between,” Taylor-Joy says.
Even moving chess pieces, she found interesting ways to do that.
That physicality was key to depicting Beth’s growth over the course of the series.
Explains Taylor-Joy, “When you first meet Beth at 15, she waddles.
She’s got a very distinctive flat-foot, side-to-side way of moving.
It’s little things like that, that you just hope people notice.”
And I was like ‘Not eight, dude,'" Taylor-Joy says with a laugh.
(Another actress, Isla Johnston, plays eight-year-old Beth in the first episode.)
“It was important to me to understand the theory of chess,” Taylor-Joy notes.
But Beth Harmon will always be uniquely close to her heart.
“To borrow a 2020 phrase, I felt very seen by Beth,” the actress says.
So for me it was my art, for Beth it’s chess."
