NEW YORK POST – Some months after shooting had ended on Anya Taylor-Joy’s debut movie, 2015’s acclaimed supernatural horror film “The Witch,” she was called back for two days of reshoots. As the actress slipped into her familiar smock and bonnet, she began to sob. “It was like being reunited with a friend,” she recalls. “I hadn’t yet understood that characters were real for me. When I finished that movie, I just fell into a really big depression, and then I realized it was because I didn’t have [my character] Thomasin around.”

Taylor-Joy, 23, has been going through a similar grieving process for Emma, the famously hotheaded, overly confident titular heroine of Jane Austen’s fourth novel, although a press tour for the movie, opening Feb. 21, has brought some solace. “It’s almost like an assisted grieve,” she says, laughing. “I spent more time being Emma than I did being Anya. It was like living with a twin sister.”
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