ELLE UK – Anya Taylor-Joy is a woman who lives in extremes. ‘I pulled together my 30th birthday party in two days,’ she says. ‘Two hundred of my favourite people in one place, on a Wednesday, in LA. My friends DJed some pretty intense techno, which I realised is not everyone’s cup of tea, but they got into it.’ She partied until 1.30pm the next day, then slept for two hours and went to Coachella – before coming back, packing a bag and driving across America.

She rides through every situation like this, with the same hard-core intensity she brings to the screen, squeezing the utmost out of every frame. In person, however, she is anything but frantic. It’s a sweltering 35°C and London has that specific unhinged energy only a heatwave can bring. At midday, people with pints are already noisily congregating on the pavements. But three floors above, in an air-conditioned Soho House, it’s a different picture: Taylor-Joy enters, a portrait of serenity in an ivory midi-dress from Fforme, its pleated satin illuminating her pale skin. There’s a meticulousness to the way she sits, speaks and moves that makes even the smallest gesture feel intentional. She picks up my recording device and examines it in her palm, as though trying to calculate its weight. She orders a drink – ‘a Diet Coke would be amazing’ – pondering at length whether it’s actually any different to Coke Zero.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER– For six months, Anya Taylor-Joy was not allowed to breathe.

On the Australian set of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, director George Miller delivered the same edict daily, with the patience and conviction of someone who has made exactly the movies he wanted to make his entire career: Don’t breathe. Close your mouth. Show no emotion. He wanted an icon, and icons, in his view, do not fidget.

In fact, her latest project — Lucky, a propulsive Apple TV crime thriller premiering July 15 — has her on the run for nearly the entire length of its seven episodes: sprinting, scrambling, tumbling, never stopping. It is, in ways both obvious and not, the most personal project of her career.

At this particular moment, though, she is seemingly content to linger, eating a bowl of berries on the sun-dappled terrace of a West Hollywood restaurant while recalling that cursed director’s note — don’t breathe, close your mouth, show no emotion — like someone who has processed something genuinely difficult and come out the other side with her humor intact.

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On July 13, Anya Taylor-Joy attended the premiere of her show Lucky which airs on July 15 on Apple TV in Los Angeles. Find more than four hundreds photos from the night as well as portraits.

Currently working on a translation of the interview…