From the breakout role in the Witch to the Queen's Gambit, the fierce, titular rebel in the new release Furiosa, Anya Taylor-Joy has built a career playing a character she describes as having a "sense of defiance."In the new British GQ cover story, Taylor-Joy is about becoming an advocate for portraying "feminine anger" on screen, to directors who feel more loyal to her character

"I've developed a bit of a reputation for fighting for female anger because I don't promote violence, but I think women are seen as people." We have reactions that are not always dainty," the actress told the outlet.

She said, "What I'm trying to understand is that you have to be in your position as long as you're not harming someone else."

The Golden Globe winner spoke candidly about how much women have advocated having a reaction that is not prohibited on screen. She explained that it began while filming her first lead role in Robert Eggers's 2015 modern classic horror film "The Witch." Taylor Joy was instructed to cry in the scene where her character Tomasin, who was accused of being a witch who terrorized her family in colonial New England, is dragged out of her home.

She said to the British QQ, "Finally I said,"She is angry; she f-King is angry." She has been accused again and again, and she has not done anything. We need to stop crying.

Eggers listened, and the star was happy with the results of the film, which sees Thomas Machine embrace the supernatural — or, as another character would say, ""Taylor Joy, I feel so happy for her."" Girls, fly, do your thing. Live deliciously, you won it. This world is not for you... I love the ending of that movie.

While working with Eggers again in 2022's The Northman, Taylor-Joy also made suggestions on how her character Olga would react to a man who touched her without her consent. Pouring her hands with blood was Anya's idea.

Taylor Joy is also reflected in a scene from the 2022 thriller Menu, which completely contradicts what was written in the script about how her character would react when she found out about her date (played by Nicholas Holt), knowing that they would die and finding out where to find her. I took him to the hospital. She was supposed to shed one tear, but director Mark My Lord and her co・stars agreed to let her follow her instincts.

"On which planet do we live?"She said. I'm jumping over the table and literally trying to kill him with my bare hands.

Furiosa, the long-awaited prequel of legendary director George Miller's Mad Max franchise (out in cinemas on May 24), Taylor Joy got even more contact with her defiance.

"To all who have defended my female anger, I was not an angry person," she told British GQ. "For a long time, the only thing I got angry with was bad words about other people. I've always internalized this thing: "I did something wrong." If you treat me badly, that's because I'm the problem.

The Emmy-nominated star continued, "And I'm so grateful to Juliosa because there was a real moment when I started to get angry with myself. My husband said, "I've never heard of you going to be like this."I was like, "I'm glad!" It's nice to be angry!"On that guy's steps, I went to the site and said, 'Hi fkk!"It makes me feel good."