Anya Taylor-Joy names her dream Disney role: “That would be pretty sick”
Disney dipping into its own animated back catalogue for a procession of live-action remakes has become one of the studio’s most lucrative revenue streams, and now Anya Taylor-Joy wants a piece of the action.
There’s a lot to be said about the startling lack of originality on show when the Mouse House has regularly ignored unique stories in favour of returning to very familiar wells, but it’s hard to argue with the results when the company’s remakes and sequels consistently make serious bank.
The live-action remakes have brought in north of $10 billion at the box office, so there’s no chance that gravy train will be allowed to dry up anytime soon. However, with so many animated favourites being repurposed, the gap between the original and the remake is growing increasingly shorter.
Moana only hit cinemas in 2016, but ten years later, the live-action redux featuring star and producer Dwayne Johnson, who will be reprising his role, will sail into theatres in July 2016. Taylor-Joy is looking a little further into the past for her own dream part, but not by much.
Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck’s Frozen was a cultural sensation when it was released in 2013, becoming the top-earning animated film in history. Six years later, the sequel earned even more money and cracked the all-time top ten list at the global box office, with at least one more instalment set to follow.
It’s surely only a matter of time before the musical fantasy is announced for the live-action treatment, and Disney even has a potential lead now that Taylor-Joy singled out Elsa as her dream role. “I think Frozen would be pretty great,” she told Vogue. “It would be very fun to shoot ice out of your hand.”
“Also, you’d just be the favourite at every kid’s birthday party,” she continued. “All of my siblings have children now, so I would love for them to be able to say, ‘My auntie is Elsa’. I think that would be pretty sick.” She wants to star in a musical and Frozen‘s Elsa has been sent out there into the world, placing the ball firmly in Disney’s court.
Whether or not it happens remains to be seen, but either way, it’s almost inevitable Frozen will be coming to live-action eventually. When it does, there’s no denying that Taylor-Joy certainly looks the part, and the Golden Globe winner also happens to be one of the most popular young stars in the industry.
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