A Georgian chess champion has launched a $5-million defamation lawsuit against Netflix over a line of dialogue referencing her in the chess-themed series “The Queen’s Gambit”.
Deadline reports that 80-year-old grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili is suing the streamer, charging the line referencing her by name was “sexist and belittling.” The brief snippet of dialogue occurs during the climactic chess tournament in Moscow, where fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) competes. “The only unusual thing about her, really, is her sex, and even that’s not unique in Russia,” says an announcer during the competition. “There’s Nona Gaprindashvili, but she’s the female world champion and has never faced men.” RELATED: Anya Taylor-Joy Says
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