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At home in the mud and the blood

Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen’s Gambit. Photo © NETFLIX

Anya Taylor-Joy posted a brief Instagram video a few weeks ago during a car ride, her hair damp, her face smeared with dirt and her smile radiant as she laughed and announced, with a hint of astonishment: “Wow … today was a very good day.” There were no words in the post’s caption, just a volcano emoji bracketed by two ice cubes.

Asked about the video, Taylor-Joy says “that is genuinely, potentially, my happiest place”, and by “happiest place”, she does not mean Iceland, where the video was shot coming home from a recent day working on Robert Eggers’ latest movie, the Viking epic The Northman, nor does she necessarily mean a film set, though she will proclaim repeatedly and without prompting during a lengthy recent video…

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