“Men are going to come along and want to teach you things. Doesn’t make them any smarter,” Anya Taylor-Joy is told in a new trailer for “The Queen’s Gambit.” “You just let them blow by and you go on ahead and do just what the hell you feel like. Someday you’re going to be all alone, so you need to figure out how to take care of yourself.”
Set in the late 1950s, the Netflix series tells the story of Beth (Taylor-Joy), a young woman who was abandoned by her family and raised in a Kentucky orphanage. After discovering a prodigious talent in the game, Beth works her way up in the male-dominated world of competitive chess while battling an addiction to tranquilizers.
The trailer alludes to Beth’s “genius and madness.” She believes she may have inherited the latter. “Maybe it’s in my blood. My mother went crazy,” Beth explains.
Taylor-Joy broke out with 2015’s “The Witch.” “Morgan,” “Split,” and “Emma.” are among her other credits.
“The Queen’s Gambit” launches on Netflix October 23. Marielle Heller, who is best known for directing “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” co-stars.
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