Anya Taylor-Joy revealed in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar magazine that she rejected an offer to star in a Disney Channel pilot in order to act in Robert Eggers’ “The Witch” instead.
The 2015 horror movie served as Taylor-Joy’s acting breakthrough.
Suffice to say, the Emmy nominee’s career would’ve looked a whole lot different if she went the Disney route.
Taylor-Joy got offered Disney and “The Witch” on the exact same day.“I remember it was the same day I got asked to be in a Disney Channel pilot, and it was so exciting to be offered anything at all that I ran around the house like a loon,” Taylor-Joy said.
“But I just had this really good feeling about ‘The Witch’ that made me willing to forego the Disney experience for the thing that felt unknown to me, the thing that felt sacred.”Taylor-Joy knows
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