Everywhere you look this awards season, Teyana Taylor is there. Not content with winning her first Golden Globe last weekend for her scene-stealing performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the actor and singer is also up for her first Grammy for recent R&B album, Escape Room, and is heavily tipped to lead the Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress when they’re announced next Thursday.
For anyone who has witnessed Taylor’s wildly charismatic turn as One Battle After Another’s Perfidia Beverly Hills, encapsulated by the indelible image of her relentlessly letting off a machine gun while heavily pregnant, the praise for her acting will come as no surprise. She pops off the screen as if she’s operating in an extra dimension, entrancing audiences just as she leaves both Leonardo DiCaprio’s stoned revolutionary Bob and Sean Penn’s perverse white supremacist Colonel Lockjaw trailing in her wake.
