It doesn’t get more ethereal than Anya Taylor-Joy. The actress always looks right at home in a heightened world, whether that be Robert Eggers’ take on ancient Iceland or a far-flung desert planet centuries in the future. She’s spent a lot of time in desolate wastelands as a result, so much so that the actress recently joked about being typecast as a “desert creature.”
“People love to put me there,” Taylor-Joy told L’Officiel, “and I do feel a real affinity for it.” The feeling is mutual for audiences, too — many are looking forward to seeing Taylor-Joy step into the role of Alia Atreides in the upcoming Dune: Part Three. After that trip to Arrakis, however, Taylor-Joy is taking a break from the desert altogether. Her latest project will bring her to a different, but no less iconic, locale: the woodlands of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
