Actress Anya Taylor-Joy creates playlists for the characters she plays | GMA

I am here with Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred as the title character in a new movie adaptation of Jane Austen's comedy, Emma, which critics are calling witty, dazzling, and hilarious. Anya, welcome to GMA. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. We've been seeing you in a lot of movies over the last five years or so, but the way you got discovered was really fascinating, yet a little scary. Yeah, a little creepy. You were walking your dog, and a car started following you. Yes, I was wearing heels for the first time because I had a party that I was trying to practice for, and this black car started following me. So I freaked out, picked up my dog and ran, and then a guy stuck his head out the window and said, if you stop, you won't regret it, which is like every horror movie ever. I did stop, and it was the head of a modeling agency, and it all worked out, but I do not suggest that people stop if a car is following you. I feel like, just keep running. Good public service announcement. Do not stop, no matter what. Now you're starring in Emma, just a few years later, but you say you make a playlist for every character that you play. What's on Emma's playlist? The main one is Hall and Oates' Rich Girl. That was kind of the song of the theme. And then there was a whole bunch of just really romantic music, like I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Louis Armstrong, and the love theme from the Robin Hood's animated movie that made Marion Sings. That was in there. And those movies, I guess the music inspires your character, obviously, so we're going to take a look at a clip of you in action as Emma. Let's check it out. She's pretty and she's good-tempered, and that is all. That is all? These are not trivial recommendations, Mr. Knightley, till men do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces. A girl with such loveliness as Harriet has a certainty of being admired and sought after wherever she goes. I am very much mistaken if your sex in general would not find these qualities the highest claims a woman could possess. Don't want to mess with you. But there have been a few adaptations of Emma, but what sets this one apart? I think it's the fact that period drama, it seems like it happened such a long time ago that people almost treat it like science fiction. And we wanted to remind people that the words are actually really funny. And underneath all the corsets and the bonnets and the whole shebang, these are real people and they're hot messes most of the time. So we wanted to create like a hot mess Emma, if that made sense. A hot mess Emma. Yeah, like we have panic attacks. Everyone's just sort of like losing it all over the place and yet still trying to keep it like straight. Keep it proper. You mentioned the costumes beautiful. Yeah. How much of the costumes make the woman in this film? And did you keep anything from the set? I dropped crazy hints. I was like, I could wear this with my Doc Martens and like I can make it work. But no, they're very expensive. So I didn't get to keep any of them. That being said, Emma's such a vain character and the clothes were so amazing that if I was wearing a coat that had a really incredible back, I would find myself delivering my lines kind of over the shoulder to show off the coat because that's the sort of girl that Emma is. So it was a nice like end to the character. And you have a very musical cast there with you on set that I hear when you had breaks, you guys would break into song. Yeah. We actually have a little tape of that. Let's check it out. Oh, gosh. Oh, this is this is us dancing to one of the songs that we put together where we are. We had a lot of time, guys. Quite a bit of time, quite a bit of time to do stuff. And I mean, you've been so busy. You're in a new X-Men movie. The new movie is coming out this spring. So what can you tell us about that? Just give us the whole script. Give it away. Um, no. I will say that I get to play a very sassy, very aggressive Russian lady who doesn't really, you know, care what other people think of her. And I'm not quite like that. So it's a fun energy to go into work every day. I tell you what, it's amazing. People do not stop for cars, but that you did. We're glad you did. And we're looking forward to seeing you in it at Intellect Theatres on Friday.