Anya Taylor-Joy: Childhood Moves Shaped My Acting Career

has revealed her uprooted childhood left her feeling 'alienated' as she opened up about how constantly moving around when she was younger. 

The actress, 30, posed up a storm for her latest glamorous L'Officiel magazine shoot as she modelled a range of quirky looks. 

And reflecting on her childhood, the Dune star said moving across the world with her family from a young age left her feeling alienated from her peers, as she confessed: 'it was difficult for little me.' 

However now seeing it as a positive, as it prepared her for life as an actress, she recalled: 'But now I look at it with so much love, because I just think it perfectly set me up to live this kind of transient life.'

Anya was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina before moving to the UK at age six and has previously described the move as 'traumatic' and initially refused to learn English as she hoped they would move back to Argentina. 

Now splitting her time between London and , she said: 'I’ve always been nomadic by nature.

'Now I’ve just fully embraced it as part of who I am. If I have a couple of days off, I’m always like, Ooh, what’s within driving distance? If it’s six hours or less, I’m like, Let’s go. Why not?'

Anya previously said she feels like she's 'never really fully belonged' anywhere as she explained why she had trouble fitting in early on in an interview with InStyle magazine back in 2021. 

'I grew up feeling like people didn't like or trust me because they couldn't put me in a box,' Anya told the magazine of her early days.

'I was always the Argentine girl in England. I was the English girl in America. I was the weird blend of both in Argentina, so I never really fully belonged,' the star - who stunned on the cover with a bouquet of sunflowers and blushing makeup - went on.

'To go from being somebody like Emma to Sandy to Beth [The Queen's Gambit], I thrive off that,' she said.

'It is so much fun to be able to pick apart a different person and go, "Oh, how am I going to make myself either bigger or smaller to fit into their shoes?" 

'You end up working out some of your own s**t that you didn't even realize that you needed to work out because you're clearly connected to that person for some reason. It's very esoteric and wanky, I apologize.'

'But yeah, I don't appreciate boxes. I don't think that is helpful to anybody or a very intelligent way of looking at human beings.' 

The ingenue said that when she was young she was 'comically mad at my parents for taking me away from the horses' and refused to learn English in retaliation.

Because of that Anya says she 'used to stress out over the fact that I didn't have a home. I had no base. I had no place to land.'

Anya has rarely spoken about her relationship with husband Malcolm McRae since they began dating, having first been spotted together in New York.

They managed to maintain a healthy relationship despite living on opposite sides of the Atlantic before marrying, with Anya largely based in London, while McRae, who also acts as well as being in a band, remained in the United States.

Discussing their relationship with British Vogue in March 2022, Anya said: 'I said to my partner the other day that he was my hobby. I see reading as something that I have to do. He loved it because he’s the same.

'I’ve finally found someone who will happily sit in silence with me reading. We’re basically 80 years old and seven at the same time and it works really well.'

Referring to the distance, she added: 'Yes, it is [hard], but it’s also kind of great because when you’re together you’re really valuing the time that you have.

'Everyday mundane activities are so full of joy. I love going to the petrol station with him and filling up.'