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Anya Taylor-Joyis a bigNicole Kidmanfan — and the feeling is mutual!
Speaking with PEOPLE at the Los Angeles premiere of their filmThe Northmanon Monday, Taylor-Joy called costar Kidman “fierce and wonderful,” raving, “I just have utmost respect for her.”
According toTheQueen’s Gambitactress, Kidman “showed up maybe about halfway through filming and the first thing [director Robert Eggers] did was put her on a horse on top of a mountain where she could have fallen off.”
“And instead, she’s just like, ‘Yep, I’m here. I’m in it. We’re doing it,’ " continued Taylor-Joy, 26, of her costar. “I adore her.”
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Kidman, 54, and Taylor-Joy star alongsideEthan Hawke,Alexander Skarsgård,Willem Dafoe,Claes BangandBjörkinThe Northman.
At the premiere, Kidman and Taylor-Joy posed with the rest of the cast, but also took time to pose together on the black carpet at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater.
“She is the real deal,” Kidman told PEOPLE of Taylor-Joy. “And she is so fun and she’s such a trooper, and she’s just lovely; I can’t sing her praises enough. And she’s just got grit and heart. What more can you ask for, right?”
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Kidman previously opened up toVarietyabout makingThe Northmanduring theCOVID-19pandemic, saying during an interview published in January 2021 that she “was pretty scared” to travel to Ireland to film.
“People were saying, ‘Oh my God, if you go, you’re going to get COVID.’ So I was really frightened,” she recalled.
“But at the same time, I had this sense of duty and I had this sense of, ‘This is what I do,’ " Kidman added. “I’ma creative being who shows upand I put on as much protection as I could and so I did the production and we were all safe and I went, ‘Okay, let’s go.’ "
The Northmanis in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
