How Anya Taylor-Joy Became Beth Harmon in ’The Queen’s Gambit’ | Rotten Tomatoes

How do you turn yourself into the world’s most formidable chess prodigy when you barely know how to play the game yourself? That was the question facing Anya Taylor-Joy as she prepared to step into the mind of Beth Harmon, the protagonist of Walter Tevis’s novel ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and its lavish Netflix adaptation, which arrives on the service this month. Set in the 1950s and ’60s, the series follows Harmon’s rise from orphan with a talent to teen prodigy to national champion, all as she deals with addict