Anya Taylor-Joy Played A Perfect Villain In This Sci-Fi Thriller
Anya Taylor-Joy may be best known for her breakthrough role in Netflix's hit TV series, The Queen's Gambit, as well as starring in The witch and most recently Last Night In Soho. However, Anya portrayed a villainous character in the 2016 thriller, Morgan. Anya portrays the title character, who is revealed to be an artificial intelligence project called L-9. Morgan looks and acts like a human, but is very intelligent and powerful.
In this sci-fi feature, Morgan's physical appearance resembles a teenager, but the biological organism is actually five years old, proving that it can walk, talk, and learn other activities much faster than human beings in a short amount of time. While Morgan can briefly convey emotions at times with doctors and scientists (many of whom consider "her" as their own child), the humanoid easily gets upset and physically violent, especially when being provoked or denied access to go outside the lab site (where she's mostly kept isolated to ensure the safety of every employee who works there).
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Morgan initially starts out as an intense psychological thriller in which all the characters are briefly introduced, including protagonist Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), a risk-management specialist for a company called SynSect, who goes to the lab site to investigate and analyze Morgan's behavior, as well as what led Morgan to stab one of her doctors, Kathy Grieff (Jennifer Jason Leigh), in the eye.
Weathers meets with all the faculty members who work at the lab, and appears nice and pleasant, but is actually a cold character because she doesn't trust anyone, including Morgan (who Weathers refers to as "it" and not "her"
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