- At age 13, our next guest was pulled on stage
and then played guitar with the Beach Boys.
Fun fact. I didn't know that.
It apparently led to some of the rest of her life.
Please welcome, Anya Taylor-Joy.
(audience applauds)
There was something I forgot to mention.
- Unreal. Unreal. Hi everybody.
- I am- (audience applauds)
I- Okay, let me feed into the curiosity of the question.
You were playing guitar, pretend with Beach Boys.
What happened in that moment?
'Cause there are moments that change our lives.
- Yeah, it's a lot.
When I was a kid, like the only music that I loved,
was music from the fifties and the sixties.
And so the Beach Boys were specifically
very important to me.
And so they were playing and I just ran to the very front
and I was singing along to every single song.
And so Mike Love stopped the concert and said,
okay I understand why everybody else knows all the lyrics,
but there's a child that knows all the lyrics.
Mike Love pulls me up on stage.
I can't play guitar at all.
He hands me a guitar.
I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing with this, help.
So, no, no, no, just go for it.
And I was like, okay.
Greatest guitar solo of all time
that, you know occurred, like it was amazing.
(audience applauds)
- Didn't play a single note.
And I took it into the modeling agency
and I just asked them,
I was like do you think I can play guitar?
And they're like, yeah, you're shredding it. Acting.
I wanna be an actor. Like, help me.
Let's do this.
So yeah, big up, Mike Love.
Thank you for that. (audience applauds)
- And what age were you around?
- I'm like 14, but a young 14. Like I looked,
I hadn't grown into my face yet.
- And I love that I heard you weren't always
embraced at school.
- I was very, very lucky with my parents
because when I was bullied for my looks,
my mom always said you look at the inside of somebody.
You look at the inside of somebody, you don't look at class,
you don't look at anything like that.
You don't look at what they do for a job.
It's just, do you like that person's heart?
And I really have to give a big shout out to my mom
for that, 'cause it was really helpful.
(audience applauds)
- And it's true apparently,
that you weren't the world's greatest chess player,
but you changed the world with chess.
(audience applauds)
- I could not play chess at all.
I had never picked up a piece in my life.
But I read that book and I just,
I felt that character so deeply.
I felt like I could do it immediately that moment
and physically ran, to meet the director
and before I could say anything, I just screamed at him.
It's not about chess and she has to have red hair
and he hired me.
Which is surprising because I looked crazy.
- Now when you were choosing to do this project,
"The Menu", it is so unlike any film I've seen
in a very long time. It's so set apart.
- It's crazy.
- It's a masterclass in tone.
- Thank you.
- We have a clip. Take a look. I'm so blown away.
- So Margo, you will fetch the barrel instead.
- Me?
- Yes. You remember the Smoke House now?
- Maybe vague- I don't-
- Chef. Perhaps one of us-
- Margot is now one of us Elsa, right Margo?
- Yes. - Yes what?
- Yes chef.
(audience applauds)
- I've not seen a movie like this.
Did you know going into it, it would be so unique?
- With "The Menu" you really-
I had no idea where it was going.
And if you've seen that final scene,
who on earth could possibly see that coming?
And I was so excited by the prospect
of being on something that original,
but also collaborating with these incredible performers.
- I've never seen anything like that.
(audience applauds)
Now as a girl, I'm totally in love with you.
I heard you like raves, you like "Sex And The City",
you're cool, you're fun. Age transcends.
I just wanna hang out with you and bring back dance parties.
- Yes.
- And is it true you went up to Sarah Jessica Parker,
and you were like, I am watching you Big-
- Girl. It was, yeah, it was a really bad moment for me,
just because I saw her and I ran up
and I was going through a really bad breakup
and I was like, "Hey I just have to tell you,
like I've been watching you and Big
and it's like giving me a lot of hope."
And she was like, "Oh, that you'll get back together?"
And I was like, "No, that I will survive",
that I can like move on from this and that it'll be okay.
And she was like, "Okay, that's-
I'm gonna get in my car now."
But on the subject of raving,
I was lucky enough to live in Berlin for six months,
shooting "The Queen's Gambit" and their version-
- The epicenter of the rave. The start of the rave.
- Yes.
In Berlin it's also, it doesn't have to be like unhealthy.
So my version of it, and which I genuinely think
was the healthiest I have ever been,
was I would wake up on a Sunday, I'd have brunch,
I would go to club, I would dance for about eight hours,
not talk to anybody, go home, eat a bowl of spaghetti
and wake up at four o'clock in the morning, and go to work.
- I don't know, maybe we start a movement.
- We know enough cool people,
that I think we can make a club.
- And we've all been so scared and respectful,
but it's time to start,
you know raves again at sensible hours, 'cause it's true.
I'm kind of done early.
- Raves are for people with children too.
- Yes exactly.
You don't have to be young and wild,
you can express yourself.
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