Anya Taylor-Joy walked the red carpet in Los Angeles tonight for the premiere of “Lucky.” The Apple TV film starts streaming tomorrow, July 16.
She kept the announcement brief. On Instagram, she posted “Lucky premiere in LA… out tomorrowwwww💋,” tagging Apple TV alongside production companies Lady Killer and Hello Sunshine. Fashion credits went to Dior, Dior Beauty, and Tiffany & Co. The premiere post drew more than 117,000 likes. For an announcement with no trailer and no formal campaign attached, that number reflects real curiosity.
Taylor-Joy wore Dior for the evening. The fashion partnership has held through several high-profile moments in her career. Tiffany & Co. jewelry completed the look. She tends to make a red carpet feel considered rather than automatic.
“Lucky” is produced by Hello Sunshine and Lady Killer. Hello Sunshine was founded by Reese Witherspoon. The company has built a reputation for stories centered on women. Past projects include “Big Little Lies,” “The Morning Show,” and “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Taylor-Joy fits naturally into that creative tradition.
Her path to this premiere has been one of the more deliberately interesting in contemporary film. “The Witch” arrived in 2015. Taylor-Joy was 19, and the film was a period horror piece shot in stark, naturalistic light. She said very little across its runtime and held every scene regardless. Critics noticed immediately.
“The Witch” caught critics’ attention. “The Queen’s Gambit” sealed it. The 2020 Netflix limited series placed Taylor-Joy at the center of six episodes as chess prodigy Beth Harmon. She played the role with a measured, deliberate stillness. The series became one of the platform’s most-watched limited series at the time of release.
What followed was a refusal to settle into comfortable ground. “The Menu” pushed her into darkly comic territory. Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” put her inside psychological horror. Work in the Mad Max franchise brought her into large-scale action filmmaking. She voiced Princess Peach in “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” Each project looked different from the last. Each one added something new to a filmography built on genuine range.
The approach makes sense for someone with her background. She came to the craft from an unconventional direction. Taylor-Joy moved from Argentina to London as a child. She modeled in her teens and came to acting without formal training. That outside-in background shows in her role choices. She’s drawn to characters with something held back. The performance lives in that withholding.
“Lucky” arrives in all of that context. Produced for Apple TV with Hello Sunshine’s backing, it premiered tonight in Los Angeles. It lands on the platform tomorrow. The response to tonight’s announcement suggests real appetite.
Her films tend to raise the same question: what is she working through this time? Tomorrow, people start finding out.
