Anya Taylor-Pleasure is opening up about Malcolm McRae‘s proposal.

The 28-calendar year-prior Queen’s Gambit star spoke out in an interview with Letterboxd even although marketing Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga with each other with Chris Hemsworth on Saturday,(July 6), the 30th anniversary of the release date of Forrest Gump.

All by way of the dialogue, Chris requested Anya if something “special” in her life style transpired on the legendary bench from the film.

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“Yes, my partner accidentally proposed to me on the Forrest Gump bench in Savannah,” she uncovered, such as that it was a “complete accident.”

“And he’s a boy from Alabama and I’m blonde so…it just transpired,” she continued. “I listen to that audio and I cry like a baby.”

Letterboxd wrote: “Thinking about Anya Taylor-Pleasure’s wedding day proposal these days .”

The pair secretly married in New Orleans in April 2022 appropriate ahead of acquiring a second wedding ceremony in Venice in Oct 2023.

If you didn’t know, a lot of the 1994 film facilities about the bench, with Forrest (Tom Hanks) recounting his existence story to strangers he meets on the bench while waiting for a bus.

Nevertheless, that comparable bench that he sat on in the course of filming is now at the Savannah Heritage Museum in Georgia. Most almost certainly, they got engaged on a incredibly comparable bench at the Chippewa Square Bus End in Savannah, exactly where by the scenes have been shot, Folks notes. Get additional particulars about their wedding!