If you happened to spot Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy in Greece of late, they weren’t just there to admire the scenery.
The two A-listers were on-location to shoot their new movie Sacrifice, which is currently featured in this year’s iteration of the Toronto International Film Festival.
More specifically, Evans, 44, and Taylor-Joy, 29, began many of their production days by hiking up the side of a volcano in Santorini, Greece, Variety reports.
The film’s script, by Will Arbery (of Succession fame), reportedly has meta components and explores themes of celebrity, wealth and radicalism, as the outlet noted. But that wasn’t the only reason Taylor-Joy — who plays a cult leader seeking to stop a volcano from erupting — joined the project.
“I was becoming a real bummer at parties,” Taylor-Joy, who apparently has had climate-change anxiety, told Variety. “And the script came by and I realized, like, ‘Oh, this is what you do with big feelings. You go away and you make art about it.’ Even though it might not change the outcome of what’s bothering you, it allows you a different way of releasing it.”
The Furiosa actress continued, “It put me in a better place. Spending all that time outdoors gives me a lot of peace. To know my scale, to be around landscapes that have been there for a long time before me and will be there a long time after me, that just relaxes me.”
Evans, meanwhile, opened up about how he saw the active volcano before them as an allegory.
“The volcano represents transformation,” he told Variety. “Surrender. It’s peace. It’s freedom. It’s realizing that true liberation doesn’t come from money or power or even control; it comes from letting go of the things that we think define us.”
Outside of TIFF, Taylor-Joy has been enjoying her summer in Europe. The celebrated performer was spotted last month at an Oasis concert in Europe with her husband Malcolm McRae, packing on the PDA in an Instagram video he posted.
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