Anya Taylor-Joy Said She Was "Devastated" When She Watched Her Performance In "The Witch"

    "I still get shivers thinking about it."

    Joyann Jeffrey
    by Joyann Jeffrey

    BuzzFeed Staff

    In 2015, Anya Taylor-Joy made her acting debut when she starred as Thomasin in The Witch.

    Anya Taylor-Joy of "The Witch" poses for a portrait at the Village at the Lift
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    Although fans loved her performance, Taylor-Joy thought she could have done a better job.

    In fact, the actor recently told The Hollywood Reporter that she was “devastated” by her acting in The Witch.

    "I thought I'd never work again; I still get shivers thinking about it," she said. "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,” Taylor-Joy continued. “I like to talk; I like to communicate. [But] I did not talk; I just cried. I couldn't handle seeing my face that large.”

    Taylor-Joy admitted that she “never thought” she would be cast in the supernatural horror film “because the character Thomasin was described as plain.”

    “I just thought, 'OK, there's a lot of things that I can do, but I can't really change my face that much,'” she explained.

    But regardless of what she thought of her acting in The Witch, fans still loved it, and it helped Taylor-Joy work “for a year” straight.

    Thanks to The Witch, Taylor-Joy booked The Queen’s Gambit and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role as Beth Harmon.

    Funny how things work out.