The Queen’s Gambit Star Anya Taylor-Joy Reacts to Winning Critics Choice Award, Talks Biggest Challenge of the Role [Video]

Among the winners at the 26th Annual Critics Choice Awards was Anya Taylor-Joy, star of The Queen’s Gambit, who won the award for best actress in a Limited Television Series. 

After winning the award, Taylor-Joy spoke with reporters during a virtual press conference about her role on the series. 

“Honestly, it just feels so wonderful that people love the show,” she said.

“My biggest regret is that I can’t be with the people who made it because they are my family, and you know, the loves of my life, and it would be so nice to be able to hug everybody. But it’s just a privilege and it’s a joy. I feel so, so lucky.”

Watch the interview with Anya Taylor-Joy:

Taylor-Joy also noted the fun of dressing up in her own home and offered some insight into the biggest challenge of playing Beth Harmon on The Queen’s Gambit.

“The biggest challenge was also the greatest gift, truly. Which is I act usually from a place of empathy, and so I treat the character as if they’re my best friend, or sister, or roommate –you know, someone that I live very close with that I make a real effort to make them walk differently, talk differently, laugh, cry differently, and from the second I read Beth in the book I realized that in order to tell the story truthfully I had to give up a lot more of myself, and I had to let that be seen.”

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