Anya Taylor-Joy is opening up about bullying, and why she almost quit acting before she landed her role as Beth Harmon in .The 25-year-old actress covers 's May 2021 Rising Stars issue, and gets candid about everything from growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to her experience in Hollywood in her accompanying interview with the magazine.«I joke about this, but I'm kind of serious when I say that the characters in the books were my friends.