Lucky’s Car Chase Works Because It Looks Like Trouble, Even to the Police
Anya Taylor-Joy says the crash stunt was fun. Drew Starkey says the beach run ended with a real officer asking where the cameras were.
Drew Starkey saw police lights behind the car and thought Lucky had added them to the scene. They had not.
The Chase Got Real Fast
According to Yahoo, Starkey was riding with Hayley Wright, Anya Taylor-Joy’s stunt double, during a Lucky driving sequence that sent a car through a garage door and onto a long stretch of beach. The camera crew was far away, working with a long lens, so the car looked less like a TV shoot and more like exactly what it was: a vehicle ripping across sand where vehicles were not allowed.
Starkey told People, as reported by Yahoo, that Wright was “tearing it up” on the planned route. Then the lights appeared. Starkey first read them as part of the action. Wright understood before he did. They were being pulled over.
That detail matters because it tells you something about the texture of the scene. The production was not just faking speed in a tight, overcut bubble. It had distance, momentum, and enough real-world mess around it that a police officer could arrive and reasonably ask what was going on.
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Where Are the Cameras?
Yahoo reported that the officer stopped the car because vehicles were not permitted on the beach. When Wright apologized and said they were filming a television series, the officer asked where the cameras were.
It is a perfect production anecdote because nobody has to inflate it. The joke is already sitting there: a crime thriller about people on the wrong side of the law gets interrupted by an actual law-enforcement stop, while one actor is still half-convinced the flashing lights are part of the bit.
Taylor-Joy, who was not in the vehicle during the stop, joked in the interview that telling an officer the apparently unlawful activity was only a performance sounded like the worst possible answer. Starkey played along, imagining himself trying to explain that what the officer had just seen was not real.
The misunderstanding ended when production assistants saw what was happening and ran over. Starkey said, per Yahoo, that the PAs sorted it out. Yahoo also reported that neither Starkey nor Wright was said to have been arrested or cited.
Starkey called it his favorite memory from the show’s action sequences. It is easy to see why. Some set stories feel polished for a press tour. This one has sand in its shoes.
