Anya Taylor-Joy is turning heads on the cover of V Magazine’s Fall Issue in a surreal, avant-garde photo shoot.
Lensed by photographer Nick Knight, the stylized photos feature the Dune 3 stunner wearing bespoke couture creations crafted entirely from paper by high-fashion houses including Mugler, Gaurav Gupta, Zac Posen for Gap Studio, and Matthew Adams Dolan.
Inside the issue, Taylor-Joy sits down for a candid interview with her good friend Miley Cyrus, who recently dropped her last name and now goes by just “Miley.”
The two discuss Taylor-Joy’s expanding creative footprint, including her transition into producing projects like the Apple TV+ limited crime thriller series Lucky and the upcoming movie Sacrifice, alongside her role in the much-anticipated third installment of the Dune franchise.
Reflecting on stepping behind the camera as a producer, Taylor-Joy shares, “It honestly felt like something I had always been doing; it just now had a job title. I’ve never been able to not think of the project as a whole. It’s all storytelling.”
Taylor-Joy earned critical acclaim and a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of chess prodigy Beth Harmon in Netflix’s hit miniseries The Queen’s Gambit (2020) and later joined the cast of Peaky Blinders. Her filmography includes prominent turns in The Menu (2022) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
The model-turned-actress also reveals her process of choosing roles is purely intuitive: “My body figures it out before I do—I start sitting differently, speaking the words aloud in a new voice. I believe every character has things to teach you.”
Taylor-Joy’s V cover hits newsstands on September 11—check out a sneak peek at the photos above.