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Anya Taylor-Joy makes her move in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’

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1983 novel of the same name. It follows Beth as she is sent to an orphanage at age 9 after losing her family to a fatal car crash.

There, the withdrawn girl soon discovers a rare talent for the game of chess, and rises to the top of the world’s players — all while struggling with an addiction to tranquilizers.Taylor-Joy, who grew up in America, England and Argentina, says she wasn’t very familiar with the world of competitive chess before “The Queen’s Gambit.”“I really didn’t know a lot, so I feel really lucky that my introduction to what — to me — was a secret world came from people that are revered as chess scholars,” she says. “When I was first approached [about the role] there was no script.“But I devoured the book in one sitting.

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