Anya Taylor-Pleasure wasn’t at all times the favored child.
This week, the “Queen’s Gambit” star appeared on World’s “The Drew Barrymore Present” and talked about how she handled bullying at school over her seems.
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“I used to be very, very fortunate with my dad and mom,” she mentioned, “as a result of after I was bullied for my seems, my mother at all times mentioned, ‘You have a look at the within of any individual. You don’t have a look at class, you don’t have a look at something like that, you don’t have a look at what they do for a job. It’s simply, do you want that individual’s coronary heart?‘”
Taylor-Pleasure continued, “And I actually have to present a giant shout out to my mother for that, as a result of it was actually useful.”
Talking with ES Journal manner again in 2017, Taylor-Pleasure opened up concerning the bullying she confronted from different youngsters at school.
“Once I was youthful I didn’t actually really feel like I slot in wherever,” she mentioned on the time. “I used to be too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English, too American to be something.”
The actress continued, “The children simply didn’t perceive me in any form or kind, and I used to be actually badly bullied. I used to get locked in lockers, you already know, barred from school rooms, not invited to issues. It wasn’t nice.”
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Taylor-Pleasure added that she spent loads of time “crying in loos. We’re social creatures and we don’t do properly once we’re not accepted, or once we really feel like we don’t belong wherever.”
In an interview with Elle in 2021, the 26-year-old shared how the bullying might have really pushed her tougher to pursue her profession.
“It simply actually pushed me. A lot the identical manner as Beth wanted chess, I wanted performing,” she mentioned, referring to her “Queen’s Gambit” character. “I wanted to imagine in a spot the place I might be valued and appreciated, and really have one thing to contribute reasonably than continually feeling like, ‘What’s mistaken with me, and why do I not slot in?’”
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