While Anya Taylor-Joy is starring in Edgar Wright's latest film Last Night In Soho, she admits she auditioned for another one of his films a few years back and did not get the role. Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) stars alongside Matt Smith (Doctor Who) and Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit) in Wright’s upcoming psychological thriller. The film follows Eloise (McKenzie), a young fashion student who finds she can travel to the 1960s and experience the life of club singer Sandie (Taylor-Joy). Eloise discovers her visits to the past are more sinister than she originally thought, and it is up to her to solve a decades-old mystery while being tormented by entities she cannot explain.
Since her breakout role in 2015's The Witch, Taylor-Joy has seen her star rise significantly as filmmakers and audiences alike discover her talent. She has been attached to Last Night In Soho since the early stages of development, when she was originally cast to play Eloise. However, as Wright and co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns developed the script, he realized she would be better suited playing the singer.
In an interview with Variety, Taylor-Joy says she was a massive fan of Wright's and had actually auditioned for Baby Driver, but obviously didn't get the part. Instead, she says, Wright approached her after The Witch debuted at Sundance in 2015, and after speaking with her, chose to divulge the premise behind Last Night In Soho. The project was still a long way out, but he clearly saw something in Taylor-Joy that resonated with his idea:
I had read the Baby Driver script and auditioned for it. I was a really really big fan of his. [...] He was a judge at Sundance and I was really starstruck. I was like, ‘Oh, my god, Edgar Wright wants to talk to me!’ …I don’t think he was planning on telling me what the story [of Last Night In Soho] was about but we got along so well, he was like, ‘So, this is what the movie is.’
In the same interview, Wright admits to remembering Taylor-Joy's Baby Driver audition, but is glad they decided to team up on Last Night In Soho instead. He didn't have the script written when he first pitched her the story, and he jokes that, because he brought it up every time they ran into each other, it must have seemed like it would never really happen. But, thanks to the delay, Wright had time to see more of Taylor-Joy's work by the time he got to writing, and says that's when he started to feel she'd be a better fit for Sandie.
With an accomplished cast and one of the hottest young Hollywood talents in Taylor-Joy, it's easy to imagine this film succeeding with audiences. It’s almost impossible to believe that there was a time Taylor-Joy thought her career ended with The Witch, as she is already slated to play the lead in the Mad Max prequel Furiosa and voice Princess Peach in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. project from Illumination Entertainment. After a year's delay due to the ongoing pandemic, audiences are excited for the latest Wright film, and it's only fitting that Last Night In Soho’s release aligns perfectly for the Halloween weekend.
Source: Variety
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