Anya Taylor-Joy had no doubt that she wanted to join Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” after reading the 1983 book upon which the acclaimed series is based. “First of all, I ran to the meeting with [producer] Scott [Frank].
I don’t run, that’s not something that I do really, but I ran to that meeting as soon as I finished the book, because I so excited and I just, I knew her so immediately,” Taylor-Joy said during a session about the show for Deadline’s Contenders Television event.
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