Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy began most days filming their new movie, “ Sacrifice ,” by hiking up the side of a volcano in Santorini, Greece.
“You’re just looking around at the majesty of the world,” Evans says of the panoramic view. “It’s easy to completely lose yourself, as you would if there weren’t a film crew capturing your every move.”
But, of course, Evans and Taylor-Joy weren’t just there to admire the scenery. “Sacrifice,” directed by Romain Gavras (“Athena”) from a script he co-wrote with Will Arbery (“Succession”), is an audacious send-up of celebrity, wealth and radicalism. In it, Evans plays a movie star experiencing an existential crisis when he’s tapped by Taylor-Joy’s cult leader to be sacrificed to fulfill a prophecy to stop a volcano from erupting. It’s an out-t