Anya Taylor-Joy Reveals the Weirdest Moment She Experienced Filming ‘Dune’
The actress recalls unexpectedly meeting “fetus me” on set and reveals how pranksters briefly disrupted filming of “Lucky.”
During a recent appearance on Radio Andy’s “The Julia Cunningham Show,” Anya Taylor-Joy shared a behind-the-scenes moment from filming “Dune” that caught her completely off guard. The actress also looked back on a prank that briefly disrupted production on her upcoming movie, “Lucky,” in Las Vegas.
Anya Taylor-Joy recalls meeting “fetus me” on the “Dune” set
Anya, who made her debut as Alia Atreides in “Dune: Part Two,” said one of the strangest moments of filming came when she unexpectedly stumbled upon a prosthetic version of the character.
“I got to meet the baby version of me on set and it was a surprise,” Taylor-Joy told host Julia Cunningham. “I walked into the prosthetics area and there was fetus me, and I have some insane pictures of me with fetus me.”
She added with a laugh:
“Yeah, she’s creepy, but I like her.”
Anya appeared briefly in D”une: Part Two” as the adult vision of Alia Atreides and is set to reprise the role in the highly anticipated “Dune: Part Three.”
Drunk Vegas partiers kept yelling “Cut!” during “Lucky” filming
Anya also shared a funny story from filming “Lucky” at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Although she expected to encounter plenty of over-the-top Vegas moments during early morning shoots, she said most people were surprisingly tame, except for one group that figured out how to prank the production.
“I think I had built it up in my mind, like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna see some stuff.’ People were surprisingly tame.”
Then came a group of revelers who realized they could throw her off by shouting a familiar filmmaking command.
“The only time that it kind of got in the way was actually very clever, where a group of drunk guys realized that if they yelled, ‘Cut,’ I would stop, so they really enjoyed that.”
As she ran through Caesars Palace during filming, the pranksters repeatedly yelled “Cut!”
“They’re just yelling, ‘Cut, cut, cut,’ and I was like, ‘What? What do you mean?'”
Anya said the production team eventually shut the prank down.
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