Taylor-Joy describes herself as “a mutt of different nationalities”. Born in Miami to a

Taylor-Joy describes herself as “a mutt of different nationalities”. Born in Miami to a Zambian-British-Spanish mother and Scottish-Argentinian father, then schooled in London, she’s admitted to feeling like she doesn’t fit in anywhere: “I was too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English, too American to be anything.”

I wonder if her penchant for period roles might be partly because she feels like she was born out of time too? “I feel like I was born off the planet,” she laughs.

 (The Guardian, december ‘20)