Anya Taylor-Joy on Making Chess Cool Again With 'The Queen's Gambit'
etonline.comAnya Taylor-Joy is opening up about how her life has changed since making . The Golden Globe-winning actress covers 's April issue, where she talks about «bringing sexy back» to the game of chess.“We used to joke on set that we were bringing sexy back to chess,” says Taylor-Joy after sales of chess sets soared by 125 percent in the weeks after premiered on Netflix.“We didn’t really think that that’s what people would actually think," she admitted. «I don’t think you can be an even kind of sane person and be walking around, like, 'I have reinvigorated the game of chess!'”The 24-year-old is still processing the success of the show that had over 62 million households tuned in last year.»I think," Taylor-Joy hesitates, «I’ll probably understand.
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