The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie, Adriana Lima and more brought the glamour in sparkly evening gowns to the Los Angeles premiere of their film Last Night in Soho on Sunday night.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy – “Last Night In Soho” premiere
Anya Taylor-Joy attends Focus Features’ premiere of “Last Night In Soho” at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
Thomasin McKenzie
Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy – “Last Night In Soho” premiere
Thomasin McKenzie attends Focus Features’ premiere of “Last Night In Soho” at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
New Zealand native Thomasin McKenzie, 21, and London-raised Anya Taylor-Joy, 25, are two of the most sought-after actresses of their generation. Though, if we’re splitting hairs, Taylor-Joy is on the cusp of Millennial-hood and Generation Z, while McKenzie is firmly planted in the latter. Birth years aside, both women have been steadily rising in the industry at parallel speeds, and are only now getting the chance to work together.
After just a couple small parts, Taylor-Joy caught the attention of Hollywood during the 2015 film festival circuit with her unsettling but fierce performance in Robert Egger’s The Witch, playing a young girl witnessing her colonial, puritanical family be torn apart by terrifying events in the 1600s. McKenzie, though active in the Kiwi film space since 2012, had her breakthrough performance a few years later in director Debra Granik’s 2018 indie darling Leave No Trace as a teenager living deep in an Oregon park with her survivalist father (Ben Foster).
With Last Night in Soho, their paths converge as they add another illustrious director to their impressive résumés.
Playing Eloise (or “Ellie,” as she’s also known) in Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller, McKenzie stars as an aspiring fashion designer with a psychic gift who moves to London’s Soho district for school. She rents a flat and finds herself transported to the 1960s through her dreams. But when she becomes supernaturally entwined with a singer of the age (Taylor-Joy’s Sandie), she finds herself heading deeper into a nightmare she can’t seem to wake from.
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