'The Menu’s' Anya Taylor-Joy Celebrates The ‘Gift’ Of Facing Off Against Voldemort Himself, Ralph Fiennes
It’s a good time to be a horror fan. The genre has been thriving for years now, and one of the most hotly anticipated upcoming horror movies this year has been Mark Mylod’s The Menu. The new dark comedy features an outstanding ensemble cast, lead by The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy. And she recently spoke to CinemaBlend about the “gift” of facing off against Voldemort himself, actor Ralph Fiennes.
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00:02 - I'll leave you to it.
00:08 - It was such a gift.
00:09 Listen, Rafe is such a talented actor
00:12 that whatever he wants to transmit on screen,
00:15 he will do that.
00:16 And so of course he is formidable and intimidating
00:19 and all of these other words,
00:21 but being in a scene with him,
00:23 I don't know whether it was our characters
00:26 or the way that we both approach acting,
00:29 I felt so comfortable.
00:30 It was such a warm intimacy between the two of us
00:33 and we really took care of each other.
00:35 And I think genuinely relished any time
00:38 we got to have those back and forth scenes.
00:41 It felt very, almost like a relief
00:44 because the way that Mark wanted to shoot was 360.
00:48 We were all mic'd all the time.
00:49 We were always improvising and it was incredible,
00:52 but it was also quite energetic.
00:55 And I feel like any time it was Rafe and I alone,
00:59 everything kind of calmed down a little bit
01:01 and we got to just be with each other
01:04 in that more intimate space.
01:06 - Tone is a very tricky thing to talk about
01:11 and try to explain.
01:12 Whenever I read a script,
01:16 I'm always trying to picture it in my mind
01:18 of how it would look.
01:19 And I had no idea with this one,
01:22 when I read it, how it would turn out.
01:24 But there was something really exciting about that,
01:26 not knowing.
01:28 The thing that I did know was that
01:30 we were in very good hands with Mark Milod
01:32 because I think a lot of people know "Succession"
01:35 and how wonderful, what a wonderful job they do
01:39 on that show of turning very unlikable characters
01:43 into people who you do somehow wind up caring about
01:47 in some way.
01:49 And I knew that Mark was gonna be able to take this
01:53 really rogues gallery of despicable characters
01:56 and make us care about what happens to them.
02:00 And Rafe Fiennes, I think, was just, you know,
02:05 he's a living legend.
02:08 He's one of our greatest actors
02:09 and I could immediately picture him saying the lines
02:14 as I was reading the script.
02:15 But it was one thing to imagine it
02:17 and another thing to actually be there and witness
02:20 that he is just a force and a powerhouse
02:25 and has such a way with language.
02:28 And we all felt like we were sitting in on a masterclass
02:31 because we got to sit back and watch Rafe
02:34 do these really great monologues to us, his audience.
02:38 (sniffles)
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