Anya Taylor-Joy feared her acting career was over after her first movie role.
Anya Taylor-Joy
The 25-year-old star - who made her feature film debut in 'The Witch' six years ago - thought she'd never work again despite earning high praise for her performance as Thomasin in the Robert Eggers project.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: "Rob showed us the film maybe two hours before the audience screening, and I was devastated.
"I thought I’d never work again, I still get shivers thinking about it. It was just the worst feeling of, 'I have let down the people I love most in the world. I didn’t do it right'.
"And I’m quite verbose, I like to talk, I like to communicate. I did not talk, I just cried. I couldn’t handle seeing my face that large."
However, the movie led to Anya taking the lead in the likes of 'Morgan', 'Split' and 'Glass', while she also appeared in 'Peaky Blinders' and 'The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance'.
Despite her success, it was at this point that she considered quitting acting after putting "all of [her] energy" into her career.
She explained: "What it was about is it took me a second to realise that the people around me weren’t working the way that I was working.
"I thought everybody finished a job, got on a plane, and started the next job.
"And I am incredibly grateful that that’s the way that I learned how to work.
"But these are pivotal years in my development as a person, and I had put all of my energy into fleshing out other people, and I suddenly got to a point where I had no idea who I was, trying to hold on to relationships, and trying to build a home without having any kind of root or tether, because I hadn’t figured out that I had to be that for myself."
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