Change Lottie Web speed, direction, etc before autoplay kicks in?

I've set up my Lottie animation using let myAnimation = lottie.loadAnimation. I need it to have the autoplay attribute set to true.
I want to change the speed to 2x. I can do this using myAnimation.setSpeed(2). How can I guarantee this speed change before the autoplay kicks in (which is supposed to happen right after the component loads).
Is there anything I can do besides manually stop(), configure, and then start()?