Anya Taylor-Joy has not so quietly become one of the biggest movie stars in the world in the last few years. While most would rightfully credit her outstanding performance in The Queen’s Gambit as her breakout role, she was starring in darker, ritualistic hits like The Witch for Robert Eggers years before. Back in 2024, she teamed up with Chris Hemsworth for the blockbuster sci-fi prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which has been one of the most popular movies on HBO Max for over a year now. She continued this sci-fi momentum into 2025, when she teamed up with Miles Teller (star of Top Gun: Maverick) for The Gorge, the Apple TV original that also features Sigourney Weaver. ATJ’s work with Apple TV is far from done, though, and she’s returning to the platform this summer for one of the most exciting new releases of the year.
Anya Taylor-Joy has been tapped to star in Apple TV’s new crime thriller series, Lucky, which will premiere this summer on July 15. As part of our Exclusive Summer Preview Event here at Collider, we’re thrilled to partner with Apple TV to exclusively preview a new image of Taylor-Joy in the show, which also stars Timothy Olyphant (The Mandalorian) and William Fichtner (Prison Break). After the success of The Gorge, which is still one of Apple TV’s most popular movies more than a year removed from its premiere, Lucky can safely be considered one of the most anticipated projects of the year for Apple TV. The show is based on the novel of the same name by Marissa Stapley, with Hillary Bettis, Cassie Pappas, Mark Stassenko, and even Jonathan Tropper working as writers. Apple TV previously released the first teaser and images for Lucky back in February.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
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🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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What Is ‘Lucky’ About?
Image via Apple TV
Lucky follows a reformed criminal (Anya Taylor-Joy) who is forced to confront her past and return to illicit activities for one final job with the hopes of securing her freedom and leaving behind her former life once and for all. Lucky will consist of seven episodes, and with Apple TV dropping the first two at once on July 15, this means the show will conclude on August 19, barely a month after its debut. The future of Lucky beyond Season 1 has yet to be decided, but with stars like Anya Taylor-Joy and Timothy Olyphant involved, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it return for a second season.
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Check out the new image from Lucky above and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the show ahead of its July 15 premiere date.
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Release Date
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July 15, 2026
Network
Apple TV
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Showrunner
Jonathan Tropper, Cassie Pappas, Jonathan van Tulleken
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