Anya Taylor-Joy on Acting in Horror Movies and Sleeping with Obama | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, actress Anya Taylor-Joy talks about her breakout role in 'The Witch' and her upcoming starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's 'Split' but reveals she's a scaredy-cat. Here, she shares her biggest fear (revolving doors), the friends she's made with her movie characters, and her first-ever sex scene with a fictionalized Barack Obama on the eve of her 20th birthday. Even though she claims not to be a horror movie geek, Anya Taylor-Joy, at all of 20, is quickly become the genre's leading heroine. The latest indie star to emerge out of Sundance in her critically adored horror film The Witch in 2015, which became a surprise hit last year, the young Argentine-British model-turned-actress has gone on to star in the underrated sci-fi horror film Morgan as well as M. Night Shyamalan's latest fright, Split, in which Taylor-Joy's actor falls prey to a terrifying schizophrenic. (In between, she also managed to feature in the Barack Obama biopic Barry, as his collegiate girlfriend.) Here, she reveals her strangest fears, and why making horror movies is kind of therapy—even if she is a "scaredy cat." So how did Split come to you? Well, actually, M. Night Shyamalan actually offered me the role on the phone, which was crazy. I was pacing up and down, and I was kind of freaking out that he was talking to me on the phone, anyway. And then he just offered it to me. Just stopped completely dead in my tracks and started hyperventilating. I was like, "Yes, I w