Actors get asked all the time about what they’ve stolen from set or collections of props they’ve accumulated while working. I’m always entertained by these tales; however, Anya Taylor-Joy’s collection of props might take the cake. That’s because she has a collection of fake weapons, and she plans to keep it growing as she goes to work on the new Lord of the Rings movie, The Hunt for Gollum.
I really didn’t see this collection coming. While I know Taylor-Joy’s career has been defined by projects that do, in fact, feature lots of action and weapons, I hadn’t thought about the fact that she could take them home. And she does so often too, as she revealed on This Morning:
I’ve been collecting kind of an impressive armory, to be honest, of non-fireable weapons.
Honestly, this is pretty cool. Right after I heard this, I was thinking about movies like The Northman and Furiosa. Taylor-Joy really has done a lot of work that’s required fake weapons, and now she has a bunch of them in her own personal collection to prove it. To that point, she said:
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I have a bunch of really cool weapons. I’ve got like a Viking sword and my knife from Dune. And I’ll probably get another knife from Lord of the Rings.
After saying that, Taylor-Joy explained that she even used her Viking sword on her anatomically correct heart cake at her wedding. So, not only is it a cool collection, it’s uniquely useful (in non-violent ways) too.
Of course, thinking about all this has me very excited to see the actress in action in Middle-earth. She’s one of the new people heading into this fantasy world with Andy Serkis’ Hunt for Gollum, and she’s thrilled about it too. When CinemaBlend asked Taylor-Joy about this new project, she said she’s “excited for a multitude of reasons,” and explained that this is a “childhood dream come true.” I would assume an added bonus is she’ll probably get to keep a knife from set to add to her collection.
In The Hunt for Gollum, the actress is playing an elf named Seren, who is an agent who works for King Thranduil, who is played by Lee Pace. He’ll be returning to the LOTR franchise alongside Serkis, who is directing and playing Gollum, Ian McKellen, who will be back as Gandalf, and Elijah Wood, who is returning to play Frodo. Meanwhile, there are some other newbies headed to Middle-earth with Taylor-Joy too, as Kate Winslet, Jamie Dornan and Leo Woodall have all joined the cast. Hopefully, they all get some memorable stories and a knife or two to take home after that shoot, because I’m sure this will be a wonderful film.
We probably won’t find out if Anya Taylor-Joy added to her collection for a while, though, because The Hunt for Gollum is slated on the 2027 movie schedule for a December 17 premiere.
However, she does have a project coming out on the 2026 movie schedule that will include a weapon from her collection, as she noted in the interview that she did, in fact, get her knife from Dune, and Dune: Part Three will hit theaters on December 18. So, there are opportunities to see Taylor-Joy (and her weapons collection) on the big screen quite soon.