Lucky is a con artist and a thief who happens to purchase a winning lottery ticket.

This means audiences will get tosee Taylor-Joy as another complex leading character inLucky, similar to Beth Harmon.

This means thatTaylor-Joy will get to step back into a very similar role to Beth Harmon.

Collage of Anya Taylor-Joy on Saturday Night Live and Elsa in Frozen

Park Ji-hoon as Si-eun in Weak Hero

The cast of Band of Brothers together out in WWII with a close-up of Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans in The Narrow Road to the Deep North in the center

Anya Taylor Joy sitting at a chess board in The Queen’s Gambit

Beth Harmon with her hands folded under her chin during a chessmatch in The Queen’s Gambit

Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama The Queen’s Gambit is a coming-of-age story that explores the actual cost of genius. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy)  discovers an astonishing talent for chess. Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast, determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.

Article image

Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama The Queen’s Gambit is a coming-of-age story that explores the actual cost of genius. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy)  discovers an astonishing talent for chess. Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast, determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.

Headshot Of Moses Ingram

Anya Taylor-Joy

The Queen’s Gambit