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Anya Taylor-Joy’s decision to leave school at 16 to pursue an acting career has certainly paid off. In 2020, in the first month of its release, a staggering 62m households tuned in to watch her play chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix mini-series The Queen’s Gambit.

Anya has starred in many films, and she spoke to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Woman’s Hour’s Emma Barnett while promoting her latest, The Northman, which is a viking epic.

Anya also told Emma about her difficult time at school and how it’s influenced her female friendships now.

You can listen to Anya’s interview in full by heading to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds and listening to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Woman’s Hour podcast episode from 12 April.