Anya Taylor-Joy From "Emma" Tells Us About Her First Times

I'm Anya Taylor-Joy and I'm here at BuzzFeed and I'm going to be talking about my first times. First thing you do on your phone when you wake up? I text somebody that I love and I say that I'm awake and alive on the planet just so they don't worry about it. First time you knew you were famous? Famous is a bit of a weird word for me. I think I've had lots of different hair colours so it's been quite easy for people to be like, And now that I've kind of come back around to all of them it's getting harder to do that so I have to just kind of say that, yeah, no, I'm that girl. First dating advice you ever got? A boy told me he loved me and I didn't feel it back and I asked my sister if I should say it back to him and she felt really bad for him and was like, say it! But I didn't because I don't think you should say it if you don't mean it. Down it goes, okay. First Jane Austen novel you read? Emma, but she does have, it's not a book but it's a collection of letters that she wrote to her sister Cassandra and that's like a really good read. First role you really wanted but didn't get? It was my first audition ever and it was my first experience of rejection, like true rejection and it was to play the young Angelina Jolie in Maleficent and it was Disney which for me was like, oh my god! Even though I look nothing like her but I definitely cried for a very long time after that happened. First memory from filming Emma? Combination of terror. I was really frightened my first day of rehearsals because I just saw all of these icons of cinema come in and they were all so English and I'm like a mutt of lots of different places and so I was just like, oh my goodness, I really hope I do a good job at this and then pure love when I realised that people that I was a real fan of were so nice and I wanted to hang out with them all the time. First wild fan experience? You know, you just live inside of your own head so you kind of know that you're just a human being like anybody else and when people shake or cry when they meet you, you just feel really like, please don't do that, it's really okay, I'm not scary and I'm not anything wild and crazy. So yeah, the shaking, I kind of just try and calm them down. First time you watched Clueless? Sleepover. I was 13, 14. Last time I watched Clueless, probably like last week. Like I watch that movie a lot, that movie's a really good movie. First on-screen kiss? I think it was James McAvoy in Split, which was an odd first kiss to have considering he was playing my captor and I had to have my eyes open the whole time whilst he was pretending to be like a nine-year-old boy so that was pretty standard I think, you know, I think everyone's had that experience personally. First TV show you remember binge-watching? 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. That was on at 7 o'clock every night, I just loved it. I'd try and like stay up late to watch it. First book to movie adaptation you remember loving? Okay, I had The World's Biggest Crush on Peter Pan, like forever. Just that character and that book was just everything I'd ever wanted in my life and then I saw Jeremy Sumpter do it in 2003 and my heart just could not handle it. I think I watched that film every single day for like four months, so Jeremy. First job? I don't even know if I got paid for it, I did a modelling shoot but I can't really remember that but I think the first job that I didn't get paid for was basically doing anything that my sister wanted me to do because I thought she was the coolest person in the entire world and I just wanted her to love me, so I just like would make her sandwiches and give her massages and just do all of that kind of stuff. First kiss? I was 14, I was on a trampoline. I was determined that I was not going to get to 15 and not have been kissed, like that was not going to happen to me. My life was, no, that was not part of the story of my life. I felt pretty good about it afterwards. I was like, yeah, trampoline, 14, yeah. I feel good about that in my life story. First time you were starstruck? I used to live my life listening to the soundtrack from Beasts of the Southern Wilds and Dan Roemer scored that and I met him at a studio and we had just been having a really nice conversation and then halfway through I realised he was Dan Roemer and I just couldn't breathe. I was like, okay, and then I just sort of ran away. I didn't really know what else to do. And then I met Saoirse Ronan when I was 20 and she was a big idol for me when I was little and I just, I don't remember what I said. I don't think I was very cool. I'm going to work on that one. First scene you filmed for Emma? Weird one, we did the carriage scene. Josh O'Connor and I were in this carriage that wasn't really moving and the scene takes place towards the end of the film and we were both like, what are we doing? It was really fun because we got to do it a whole bunch of different ways and Josh is just so funny that it was quite difficult to not be laughing the whole time when you're in such an enclosed space with him. First impressions of Bill Nighy and Johnny Flynn on the set of Emma? Well, I mean Bill. He's the coolest man that you will ever meet. Like that just, that role is taken. That's happened and he showed up wearing his lounge robes. It's very difficult to not be awe-inspired when he walks into a room. He's just, he's so suave. And Johnny and I had a very instant kind of brother-sister sort of relationship and we found bickering really funny. It's lovely when you can feel so safe with somebody that you know that you can try absolutely anything and they'll go with you on it. So every take was really different and that was really fun. First bad date? I was on a date that wasn't a date once and that sucked. Like that was awful. I was just like, I was convinced it was a date, I was so excited about it and I think at the end of it he like punched my arm and was like, I'm so glad you're my friend. And I was like, me too man. Yeah, this is great. So it was my first bad non-date. This has been so much fun even though I'm mildly embarrassed now. But Emma comes out on March 6th so please check it out because that's actually really good fun. Bye.