Anya Taylor-Joy’s Shocking Declaration After...

Anya Taylor-Joy has gushed she’s ‘completely and utterly in love’ with husband Malcolm McRae as she reflected on their two-year marriage.

Gracing the cover of ELLE’s June/July 2024 issue, the actress, 28, posed for a stunning shoot while discussing the moment they secretly eloped together.

In April, Anya confirmed that she and Malcolm had tied the knot, two years after they actually married in New Orleans, sharing a gallery of snaps from the day.

She said: ‘I’m an incredibly sensitive, hyper-feeling person. I did not realise that I could have more feelings, but I can. I feel so unbelievably lucky to be completely and utterly in love. I have found my person.

‘I cannot believe that we get to do life together. And in talking about experiences where you get to grow, what an unbelievable thing to live your life with a mirror—and a mirror that causes you to become a better version of yourself.’

Anya revealed that she and Malcolm decided to get married after she returned from filming Furiosa in Australia.

She explained: ‘We’re just real romantics. We were born on the same day. And we wanted to make sure that our first experience was something that was completely for us.

‘So we eloped in New Orleans with our two best friends and had the time of our lives. It was magical.

‘But I’m lucky to say that the second experience—with all of our families—was so beyond beautiful, and I just feel very, very lucky.’

Last month, Anya confirmed that she and Malcolm had previously married two years ago, six months after it was thought they’d tied the knot in a lavish Italian ceremony.

During her interview with the publication, Anya also discussed her role in the upcoming prequel Furiosa, which comes eight years after George Miller’s critically-acclaimed action film Max Max: Fury Road.

She said: ‘The most beautiful and heartbreaking thing about Furiosa is that she’s the embodiment of impossible hope—living in a world where everything is a violation to you.

‘The air that you breathe, the lack of food, the fact that empathy is punished, that trust is punished.

‘And throughout it all, she just has this relentless conviction that she’s going to make good on that promise she made. I still get chills thinking about it.’

‘I wanted to really understand grit in a different way. Because I knew that I had it. But I understood that in isolation, I was going to really experience it. Okay, you’re in a house in the middle of nowhere with just your thoughts and this character. How do you cope with that?

‘And when you don’t have comfort around you—when there’s nothing that you can turn to for distraction—how are you going to experience that?’

‘My favorite flowers have always been seeded dandelions or the daisies that grow through concrete. I think I wanted to be placed in concrete. I wanted to understand how that would feel. When you get too comfortable, you stop growing.’

Furiosa will hold its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, and Anya is expected to grace the red carpet alongside her co-star Chris Hemsworth.

Anya takes over as the younger Furiosa, which is set between 15 and 20 years before the events of Mad Max: Fury Road.

Anya was born in Miami, Florida and moved to Buenos Aires as a toddler before relocating to London at the age of six ‘for political reasons’ with her parents, banker father Dennis – a Scot born in South America – and Spanish-English mother Jennifer who hails from Zambia.

Her role as orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit elevated her into one of the most in demand actresses in Hollywood, having bagged a Golden Globe for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.

She received another Golden Globe nomination for her role in black comedy movie The Menu, starring alongside Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes, and is playing the lead in blockbuster action movie Furiosa, the prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road.