It's no gambit: You may have been mispronouncing Anya Taylor-Joy 's name all this time.
While unveiling the trailer to her upcoming movieFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga, the 27-year-old pronounced her first name as "anne-ya,"not "awn-ya."
"Hello everyone, I'm Anya Taylor-Joy," she said in a Nov. 30 TikTok video, before costar Chris Hemsworth introduced himself. "So many wonderful artists worked on this film. We worked on it really, really hard and now it's yours."
But the Queen's Gambit star won't be furious if you have been pronouncing her name incorrectly. After all, she once let it slide for an entire production before correcting the crew on the true pronunciation during their last day of filming.
"My first director got so angry with me because we had gotten through the entire film and finally I was like, 'That's not my name," Anya recalled in 2021 interview with Extra , admitting that it's not her nature to confront people over the gaffe. "I can't get myself to do it."
She added with emphasis at the time that her name is "anne-ya."
However, Anya is not the only celeb with a name that's been mistakenly botched by fans and colleagues alike. Charlize Theron , who played the original Furiosa in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, can also empathize.
"It's like music to my ears," she told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon after he pronounced her last name as "there-in"during her 2014 appearance. "It's so beautiful."
Noting that many people "screw it up" by pronouncing her surname as "thur-own," the Oscar winner joked at the time, "I almost want to make an audiotape on how to pronounce my name."
To learn how to properly say some of Hollywood's most commonly mispronounced names, keep reading.