Anya Taylor-Joy has a few Disney dreams she won’t let go. The actress said this week she’d love to play Elsa in an adaptation of Frozen.
“It would be very fun to shoot ice out of your hand,” Taylor-Joy told Vogue Hong Kong. “Also, you’d just be the favorite at every kid’s birthday party. All of my siblings have children now, so I would love for them to be able to say ‘my auntie is Elsa.’ That would be pretty sick.”
Plus, the actress added, “I would love to do a musical because I’m a bit addicted to hard work. I like having an impossible mountain to climb. The idea of having to be able to sing, dance, and act at the same time would just really thrill me.”
Taylor-Joy trained as a ballet dancer as a child, and spoke elsewhere in the profile about how the experience aided her abilities as a movie actress today.
“My background as a dancer has helped me with everything in my life,” she said. It’s not only the discipline that it instills in you. I danced ballet from ages 3 to 15, and it doesn’t matter if you go to a party; you’re up at five o’clock in the morning to get to that six o’clock dance lesson. I see acting as a rhythm thing; I almost hear it as music, and that helps so much with stunt choreography because you’re in a dance with every other performer around you, so you don’t only know your own beats, you know everybody else’s beats in order to keep everyone safe.”
She also said the training helped her ability to perform her own stunts in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. “I relished the opportunity to be able to do as many stunts as I did, because there’s a very specific perfectionism that comes with stunts,” she said. “You can do something kind of right or you can get it completely right and that’s not often the case in life. And I loved it.”
