LUCKY Star Anya Taylor-Joy for L’OFFICIEL Magazine

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Anya Taylor-Joy covers the latest issue of L’OFFICIEL magazine photographed by Szilveszter Makó and styled by Lisa Jarvis.

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Lucky, not unlike Taylor-Joy, grew up moving from place to place—her father, played by Timothy Olyphant, is a con man—but the character’s experience of transience is entirely different from Taylor-Joy’s. She finds the contrast invigorating.
“I was so attracted to playing somebody who was just so desperate to stay still and put down roots and form some kind of attachment where she didn’t feel like the ground was going to fall away from underneath her,” says Taylor-Joy, who credits her own sense of stability to her close family ties. “I think there’s been such a glorification of the hustle and the con, where we see it as very slick and jazzy and sexy. I was intrigued by the idea of, What is this actually like if you can’t form any attachments to anybody? If you can’t even give people your real name, how does that feel?”

Production for Lucky kicked off in Las Vegas, where Taylor-Joy spent many of the 12-hour night shoots sprinting through the casino floor of Caesars Palace in assorted disguises. “I have a real soft spot for Caesars Palace now—we’ve been through a lot together,” she laughs. “And we pretty much kept up that pace the whole way through filming. I feel like I have literally run through most of California at this point.”

For Taylor-Joy, producing felt like a logical next step in expanding her craft. “The beauty of being a producer is that when a problem arises, you actually have the title where you’re allowed to help out,” she says. “If you don’t have the title where you can help out, you kind of have to sit back and let the adults do the talking.”

[Photo Credit: Szilveszter Makó for L’Officiel Magazine]

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