The star opened up about watching the series on The Graham Norton Show
Anya Taylor-Joy joined The Graham Norton Show on Friday night to discuss the huge success of The , and it sounds like was hugely helpful to her during filming!
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Chatting about the beloved Channel 4 show to its former presenter Mel Giedroyc, who also appeared on the chat show, she said: "Being in Beth’s headspace the whole time was quite an intense experience and I had never seen before, so I clung to it for the whole time – I watched it from the very beginning, so you were right there with me the whole time."
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She also opened up about the surreal experience of seeing herself on a billboard for the first time, explaining: "After quarantining I was still very jetlagged so went for a walk at four in the morning and ended up on Sunset Boulevard and there was a giant billboard of my face.
"I have never experienced that before in my life and promptly turned around and walked away because it was too much."
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Have you watched yet? The story follows Anya as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy who is determined to become the world's greatest player, while struggling with her increasing dependence on drugs and alcohol.
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Meanwhile, Mel joined Graham to chat about her new panel show, Unforgivable. She said: "We have an amazing array of people who are all surprisingly open in telling quite scurrilous stories about themselves.
"It was fascinating and I had the feeling they didn’t quite know what the show was because we did get some rather bad stuff out of people. I think they were so pleased to be out of lockdown and among people that they overshared!"
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