Anya Taylor-Joy Would Love To Take On This Disney Princess Role

If Disney had been to ever produce a live-action adaption of its hit animated movie, “Frozen,” Anya Taylor-Joy would like to get a name.

“Frozen,” which stars Kristen Bell (Anna), Idina Menzel (Elsa), Josh Gad (Olaf), and Jonathan Groff (Kristoff), has captivated audiences worldwide because it premiered in 2013, and several other follow-up films are at present in improvement, together with a 3rd installment, which can hit theaters on November 24, 2027.

Though the plot particulars for “Frozen 3” stay secret, Disney Animation Chief Artistic Officer Jennifer Lee shared in October 2023 that she has been “blown away” by the progress and creativity proven by the filmmakers thus far.

Whereas Anya Taylor-Pleasure shouldn’t be set to seem within the third “Frozen” movie, she says she would love to seem in a live-action adaptation if Disney had been to ever make one.

In a canopy interview for Vogue Hong Kong‘s September 2024 situation, the 28-year-old actress talked about her want to do a musical, noting that she’s “a bit hooked on arduous work.”

“I might like to do a musical as a result of I’m a bit hooked on arduous work,” she instructed the outlet. “I like having an unattainable mountain to climb. The concept of getting to have the ability to sing, dance, and act on the similar time would simply actually thrill me.”

When requested about her dream Disney position, Taylor-Pleasure responded, “I believe ‘Frozen’ can be fairly nice. It will be very enjoyable to shoot ice out of your hand.”

“Additionally, you’d simply be the favourite at each child’s party,” she added. “All of my siblings have kids now, so I might love for them to have the ability to say, ‘My auntie is Elsa.’ That will be fairly sick.”

She landed her first audition for the movie “Maleficent,” although it finally went to Ella Purnell.

Taylor-Pleasure has a various cultural background. Her father, of Argentine and Scottish heritage, relocated the household for his job as a global banker when she was a child. Her mom, initially from Zambia, has Spanish and English ancestry.

“It has taken me a extremely very long time to have the ability to simply take pleasure in it as a energy relatively than a sense of ‘I’m not sufficient of something to have the ability to slot in wherever,'” she instructed the outlet of getting such a various background. “Quite a lot of issues which might be unbelievable strengths while you’re a child, as an grownup it feels such as you simply get lots of programming or messaging again which is ‘you’re not from right here.’”

“I believe my favourite factor about my upbringing and a part of the rationale why I like to journey a lot is as a result of I’ve lots of time and empathy and love for different folks’s cultures,” the actress added. “Whereas I’ve lots of delight in all of the cultures that I come from, I actually don’t suppose I’m higher than something or anybody. And I like that strategy to the world. I see the whole lot as a possibility to study relatively than a possibility to guage. Life is extra enjoyable that approach.”

Whereas she rose to fame because of her appearing abilities, Anya Taylor-Pleasure has one other passion–traveling and writing. In truth, she says she can be a Nationwide Geographic author if she weren’t on the massive display.

“I actually like to journey and attending to know different folks’s cultures. I’ve realized that I’m a little bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I believe that performs into it,” she instructed Vogue. “Or I’d be working with animals – I’ve at all times beloved orcas and tigers particularly, so no matter would let me work with each of them. Oh, a Nationwide Geographic author! That’s what I’d be doing.”

Regardless of branching into a distinct style of performing arts, dance stays an important aspect of her profession.

“My background as a dancer has helped me with the whole lot in my life. It’s not solely the self-discipline that it instills in you,” she instructed the outlet. “I danced ballet from ages 3 to fifteen, and it doesn’t matter in case you go to a celebration; you’re up at 5 o’clock within the morning to get to that six o’clock dance lesson.”

Taylor-Pleasure shared that her ballet coaching helped her memorize chess strikes through the filming of “The Queen’s Gambit” and improved her stunts in “Furiosa.”

“I see appearing as a rhythm factor; I nearly hear it as music, and that helps a lot with stunt choreography since you’re in a dance with each different performer round you,” she continued. “So that you don’t solely know your individual beats, all people else’s beats with the intention to preserve everybody protected.”