When was the last time you heard about an actress going fully Method during a movie production, staying in character constantly, weighed down by the self-inflicted burden of inhabiting a role so completely that it seems to consume their life? Pretty much never, right? Why is that? Anya Taylor-Joy has a theory. The Furiosa and Queen’s Gambit star discussed the topic during a chat with Complex while promoting Apple TV’s limited series Lucky. “If you’ll notice, women don’t method act because we have things to take care of,” Taylor-Joy said. “We can’t completely lose our minds. I see acting as kind of like a controlled psychosis in a way….
