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Nobody Is Doing It Like Anya Taylor-Joy

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I’m not entirely convinced that Anya Taylor-Joy is of this Earth. She looks like a gazelle and a mannequin had the most beautiful baby. I’m surprised that the only time she’s played an angel is in this cut-for-time SNL sketch. All to say that it’s no surprise she looked stunning Sunday night for the 2021 Emmys.

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All yellow?! How dare you, Anya! You know it’s bad to stare at the sun!!

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Taylor-Joy, who was styled by Paul Burgo, wasn’t the only one in head-to-toe yellow for Sunday night’s award show: Fellow nominees Kaley Cuoco and Michaela Coel also wore all-yellow gowns to the 2021 Emmys. Taylor-Joy’s makeup and outfit were both Dior, her jewelry was Tiffany & Co., and her hair was in the kind of updo I would have killed to have at my junior prom. It’d be nearly impossible to make this demigod look bad, but Taylor-Joy’s ability to kill it on the red carpet is impressive nonetheless.

Taylor-Joy is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her work in The Queen’s Gambit. She’s already won a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe for her role in the series. All well-deserved recognition because who else could get you to care about chess as much as Anya Taylor-Joy has?

She’s up against some fierce competition in her category: Michaela Coel for I May Destroy You, Cynthia Erivo fro Genius: Aretha, Elizabeth Olsen for WandaVision, and Kate Winslet for Mare of Easttown. If Coel doesn’t win, I will gladly watch Taylor-Joy smooch her boyfriend and give a speech in her gorgeously indistinguishable accent.

Nobody Is Doing It Like Anya Taylor-Joy