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Anya Taylor-Joy has credited her Super Mario Bros Movie co-star Jack Black with her bilingual abilities.<\/p>\n
The actor was born in Florida while her parents were on holiday, but was raised in Argentina until the age of six when her family relocated to London.<\/p>\n
Taylor-Joy went viral this week after conducting an interview in fluent Spanish; many of her fans assumed the actor was English.<\/p>\n
While discussing her role as Princess Peach in the newly released Super Mario Bros Movie with Buzzfeed, the 26-year-old said she was \u201csuper starstruck\u201d meeting Black (who plays Bowser in the film) due to her love of School of Rock.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the school I went to, when I first moved to London, they would play School of Rock every Friday,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that time, I didn\u2019t really speak much English, if any, so that and Harry Potter and Jumanji are like how I learned English.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anya Taylor-Joy<\/p>\n
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Describing meeting Black for the first time on the press tour for the new video game adaptation, Taylor-Joy said: \u201cThe sound that came out of me was just this high pitch shriek that I was not expecting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t met each other because we all recorded our parts individually, so I was super starstruck when I saw the schedule for today.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI very seldom get like that, but I was just running around earlier like, \u2018Oh my God, Tenacious D, this is amazing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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Chris Pratt stars as the titular Italian plumber in the movie, which came out on 7 April, while Charlie Day (It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) voices Luigi and Seth Rogen lends his voice to Donkey Kong.<\/p>\n
In another recent interview, Taylor-Joy said the research for her role as Princess Peach had turned her into a video game enthusiast.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now I am a gamer, and it\u2019s really fun,\u201d she said. \u201cIdeally, I like playing at arcades, because, again, it\u2019s like cinema; I love the ceremony. I\u2019ll go with a whole bunch of friends. And we\u2019ll just spend hours at the arcade.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a script by Matthew Fogel.<\/p>\n
Pratt\u2019s casting as the famous Italian plumber has attracted criticism, including from John Leguizamo \u2013 who played Luigi in the 1993 live-action film Super Mario Bros. The Latin actor called the casting \u201cbackwards\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Super Mario Bros Movie is in cinemas now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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