Anya Taylor Joy on Acting in Horror Movies and Sleeping with Obama, Screen Tests, W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, actress Anya TaylorJoy talks abouther breakout role in The Witch and her upcoming starring role in M. Night Shyamalan s Split but reveals she s a scaredycat. Here, she shares her biggest fear (revolving doors), the friends she s made with her movie characters, and her firstever sex scene with a fictionalized Barack Obama on the eve of her 20th birthday. Even though she claims not to be a horror movie geek, Anya TaylorJoy, at all of 20, is quickly become the genre s leading heroine. The latest indie star to emerge out of Sundance in her critically adored horror film The Witch in 2015, which became a surprise hit last year, the young ArgentineBritish modelturnedactress has gone on to star in the underrated scifi horror film Morgan as well as M. Night Shyamalan s latest fright, Split, in which TaylorJoy s actor falls prey to a terrifying schizophrenic. (In between, she also managed to feature in the Barack Obama biopic br, br,