‘Furiosa’ Star Alyla Browne on Getting the Role of Young Anya-Taylor Joy by Doing the Splits and Seeing the R-Rated Film Despite Being 14: ‘I’m in It, So I’m Allowed!’
variety.comAlex Ritman Alyla Browne may only be 14 years old, but in the short time she’s been acting she’s somehow managed to assemble one of the most ridiculously star-studded on-screen family trees.
In Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers,” she played Nicole Kidman’s daughter. In Amazon Studio’s “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” she was Sigourney Weaver’s granddaughter.
Meanwhile, in George’s Miller’s fantasy “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” she appeared as a young Tilda Swinton. But the fast-rising Australian is about to top all of that.
In “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” she plays the Imperator Furiosa as a child, meaning she’s not just the young Anya Taylor-Joy, but the young Charlize Theron as well. “It’s absolutely insane,” notes the teen, now juggling her studies with her first trip to Cannes for the world premiere of the one of the year’s most highly anticipated films (thankfully, she attends a performing arts school in Sydney, so they’re quite understanding). “I’m really lucky to work with all these amazing people.
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