Taylor-Joy has been in some big projects since she appeared in The Witch. In addition to her starring role in last year’s Last Night in Soho, Taylor-Joy will be appearing as Furiosa in the film of the same name, which serves as a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. She will also be lending her vocal talents to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where she’ll be playing Princess Peach.

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In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, however, Taylor-Joy revealed she might have had a very different career. On the same day that she was asked to be in The Witch, she had also been asked to be in a Disney Channel pilot. “I remember it was the same day I got asked to be in a Disney Channel pilot, and it was so exciting to be offered anything at all that I ran around the house like a loon," Taylor-Joy recalled. “But I just had this really good feeling about The Witch that made me willing to forego the Disney experience for the thing that felt unknown to me, the thing that felt sacred.”

Taylor-Joy went on to say that working on The Witch was an important lesson for her. “It gave me the cornerstones of the way I work now, which is essentially the idea that there is no hierarchy on set: you work hard, you stay on top of the shots and you don’t assume anyone else is going to do that for you,” Taylor-Joy says in the story. “Your title doesn’t stop at actor – you’re a creative on this film, and that’s how you need to approach it.

Had Taylor-Joy signed on for the Disney Channel pilot, her career might have gone very differently. In addition to The Witch serving as a formative experience for her, Disney Channel usually steers their talent away from starring in more adult content. For Taylor-Joy, who’s known for her work on dark thrillers like Thoroughbreds and horror films, the experience probably would have meant she could not take those roles.

2015 is almost a decade ago, now, though. Who knows what would have happened after a hypothetical Disney career? Perhaps Taylor-Joy would still have landed the role of Furiosa in the Mad Max prequel. One thing’s for sure: The Witch would have been a very different movie without Taylor-Joy in it.

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Source: Harper’s Bazaar