Page 496 - Guildhall School Coverage Book 2020/21
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28 October 2020
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The Queen's Gambit, Netflix's thrilling new miniseries about a young
woman's quest to become a chess grandmaster, is full of familiar faces.
There's horror queen Anya Taylor-Joy in the lead role of Beth
Harmon; Marielle Heller, director of Can You Ever Forgive
Me? and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, as her adoptive
mother; Dudley Dursley (aka Harry Melling) as one of Beth's
competitors and friends; and the Love, Actually kid (Thomas Brodie-
Sangster) swapping his childhood singing skills for a stint as the "bad
boy" of chess.
