‘Furiosa’ Star Alyla Browne on Getting the Role of Young Anya-Taylor Joy by Doing the Splits and Seeing the R-Rated Film Despite Being 14: ‘I’m in It, So I’m Allowed!’

Alyla Browne may only be 14 years old, but in the short time she’s been acting she’s somehow managed to assemble one of the most ridiculously star-studded on-screen family trees. In Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers,” she played Nicole Kidman’s daughter. In Amazon Studio’s “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” she was Sigourney Weaver’s granddaughter. Meanwhile, in George’s Miller’s fantasy “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” she appeared as a young Tilda Swinton. But the fast-rising Australian is about to top all of that. In “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” she plays...