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

If Disney have 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 presently in growth, 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 to date.

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

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

“I might like to do a musical as a result of I’m a bit hooked on exhausting work,” she advised the outlet. “I like having an not possible mountain to climb. The thought 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 function, Taylor-Pleasure responded, “I feel ‘Frozen’ could be fairly nice. It could 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 youngsters now, so I might love for them to have the ability to say, ‘My auntie is Elsa.’ That might 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 world 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 anyplace,'” she advised the outlet of getting such a various background. “Plenty of issues which can be unbelievable strengths while you’re a child, as an grownup it feels such as you simply get loads of programming or messaging again which is ‘you’re not from right here.’”

“I feel my favourite factor about my upbringing and a part of the explanation why I like to journey a lot is as a result of I’ve loads of time and empathy and love for different individuals’s cultures,” the actress added. “Whereas I’ve loads of pleasure in all of the cultures that I come from, I actually don’t assume I’m higher than something or anybody. And I like that strategy to the world. I see all the pieces as a possibility to be taught relatively than a possibility to guage. Life is extra enjoyable that manner.”

Whereas she rose to fame because of her performing expertise, Anya Taylor-Pleasure has one other passion–traveling and writing. Actually, she says she could be a Nationwide Geographic author if she weren’t on the large display screen.

“I actually like to journey and attending to know different individuals’s cultures. I’ve realized that I’m a little bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I feel that performs into it,” she advised Vogue. “Or I’d be working with animals – I’ve at all times liked 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 unique style of performing arts, dance stays a vital aspect of her profession.

“My background as a dancer has helped me with all the pieces in my life. It’s not solely the self-discipline that it instills in you,” she advised the outlet. “I danced ballet from ages 3 to fifteen, and it doesn’t matter when 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 in the course of the filming of “The Queen’s Gambit” and improved her stunts in “Furiosa.”

“I see performing 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, you understand everyone else’s beats so as to hold everybody protected.”