Anya Taylor-Joy says the set of ‘Emma’ was like a Jane Austen theme park.
The 23-year-old actress – who performs the titular function within the drama based mostly on the 1815 novel of the identical identify by Austen – felt like she was transported again to the 18th century each time she stepped foot on set because the crew paid shut consideration to element.
When requested if it was like a theme park, she advised HeyUGuys.com: ”Yeah. All the heads of division had performed such an excellent job and so they have been so meticulous about every little thing that you just needed to get your corset laced up and go in.”
The further particulars got here as a pleasant shock to the ‘Split’ star as she was decided to play her character the best way the writer had written her.
After director Autumn de Wilde gave her the half, Anya claimed: ”It was the very first thing I mentioned to Autumn once I agreed to do it. I mentioned I actually wished to remain true to what Austin herself had mentioned concerning the character, which was that she had written a personality that nobody however herself would very like.
”I simply thought that was fascinating, I believed that was actually witty and humorous, and while it did make it arduous to play Emma at random occasions … I feel it is the best Emma. I feel it is the model that she wrote.”
Meanwhile, Anya admitted filming her upcoming thriller ‘Late Night in Soho’ a ”mind shift” as she immediately swapped the Georgian period for the Swinging Sixties.
She defined: ”I did that the day after I completed ‘Emma’ and that was a really large mind shift to enter it. Very, very completely different characters.
”Very, very completely different worlds, however that was – I actually love choreography, I’m actually inquisitive about that. I act with beats in my head, and so to have the ability to do this with music was simply nice.”
