Summary:
- Anya Taylor-Joy wants to play Elsa in a live-action Frozen, calling it a dream role.
- She also credits her dance training with boosting her acting and stunt skills.
Anya Taylor-Joy has her sights set on a Disney dream role—playing Elsa in a live-action adaptation of Frozen. This week, the actress expressed her enthusiasm for the character.
“It would be very fun to shoot ice out of your hand,” Taylor-Joy told Vogue Hong Kong. “Also, you’d just be the favorite at every kid’s birthday party. All of my siblings have children now, so I would love for them to be able to say ‘my auntie is Elsa.’ That would be pretty sick.”
She added, “I would love to do a musical because I’m a bit addicted to hard work. I like having an impossible mountain to climb. The idea of having to be able to sing, dance, and act at the same time would just really thrill me.”
Taylor-Joy, who trained as a ballet dancer from ages 3 to 15, reflected on how that experience has shaped her acting career.
“My background as a dancer has helped me with everything in my life,” she said. “It’s not only the discipline that it instills in you. I see acting as a rhythm thing; I almost hear it as music, and that helps so much with stunt choreography because you’re in a dance with every other performer around you, so you don’t only know your own beats, you know everybody else’s beats in order to keep everyone safe.”
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Her dance training also proved invaluable while performing stunts in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. “I relished the opportunity to be able to do as many stunts as I did because there’s a very specific perfectionism that comes with stunts,” she said.
“You can do something kind of right or you can get it completely right, and that’s not often the case in life. And I loved it.”
