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# Elle's Second "Rising Stars" Cover Went to Anya Taylor-Joy
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/elles-second-rising-stars-cover-went-to-anya-taylor-joy-04-2021/
- Published: 2021-04-30T14:00:52.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-30T17:09:28.000Z
- Description: That seems right.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug The Cover, Elle, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:15

[View the gallery](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/anya-taylor-joy-on-elle/)

Anya Taylor-Joy has won just about everything she can for *The Queen's Gambit*, other than an Emmy, and that's only because she hasn't been eligible for it yet (she'll likely claim that in September). So she's a no-brainer pick for this series of covers. [The interview itself is fine; she comes across as dry and self-effacing and personable.](https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a36086380/anya-taylor-joy-emma-queens-gambit/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) But the star is the art. These photos are A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS better [than the ghastly one *Vanity Fair* just ran](https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxRCOWpKvL/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Seriously, I look at these and cannot comprehend WHAT that other photographer was doing, beyond, "an injustice to her face."

###### \[Photos: Zoey Grossman for Elle; the May 2021 issue of Elle is on newsstands May 4\]