Why everyone is checking out the show that made chess sexy!
Daily MailChess is not the sexiest of subjects. But thanks to a mesmerising performance by British actress Anya Taylor-Joy, and a riveting book by American author Walter Tevis, the chess drama The Queen's Gambit has become the surprise boxset binge of the second lockdown. Checkmate: Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit THE PLOT AND ITS OPENING MOVES Based on a 1983 book The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, the show tells the story of Beth Harmon, who is brought to live at the Methuen Home for Girls after her mother, a maths professor, kills herself. Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit AND THE REAL BETH HARMON? Thomas Brodie-Sangster was adorable Sam in Love Actually Harry Melling, the beastly Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films, has a much more sympathetic part Now 31, he plays one of Beth's early 'kills' on the board, who goes on to develop a life-long crush on her SUPERSTAR WITH THE BAMBI EYES She was the star of an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma which was released this spring, but is certain to be catapulted on to the A-list by The Queen's Gambit.
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