“He’s a boy from Alabama and I’m blonde,” the actress added about the couple’s other connections to the 1994 film
is revealing her surprising connection to .
Letterboxd posted on Instagram of an interview with the Queen’s Gambit star, 28, promoting her recent film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga with her costar on Saturday, July 6 — which is the 30th anniversary of the release date of the classic film starring as the titular character.
In the clip, Hemsworth, 40, asked Taylor-Joy if something “special” in her life happened on the iconic bench from the movie.
“Yes, my husband accidentally proposed to me on the Forrest Gump bench in Savannah,” she replied, adding that it was a “complete accident.”
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“And he’s a boy from Alabama and I’m blonde so…it just happened,” the Dune: Part Two star continued. “I hear that music and I cry like a baby.”
Letterboxd captioned the post, “Thinking about Anya Taylor-Joy’s wedding proposal today 💍.”
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The British-American actor secretly married musician in New Orleans in April 2022 before the couple celebrated in Venice, Italy, in October 2023.
McRae, 30, and Taylor-Joy — who share an April 16 birthday — regularly post about each other on , but the connection between their proposal and Forrest Gump wasn’t previously known.
The bench in the 1994 film — which starred as Forrest’s mother and as his love interest — served a pivotal role in the film, directed by Robert Zemeckis. Most of the story is told in flashbacks, with Forrest recounting his life story to strangers he while waiting for a bus.
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It’s unlikely, however, that McRae proposed to Taylor-Joy on the very same bench that Hanks sat on during filming. That bench now lives at the in Georgia.
The couple likely got engaged on a similar bench at the in Savannah, where the scenes were shot.
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