With Anya Taylor-Joy hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live, many expected her to reprise her hugely popular — and award-winning — role from the limited series, chess prodigy Beth Harmon.She did not during the telecast, which had a brief reference to The Queen’s Gambit in Taylor-Joy’s opening monologue.
But it turns out she did transform herself into Beth in a sketch that was been cut for time.In it, a slew of SNL cast members are pitching Taylor-Joy Queen’s Gambit-themed skits, including Queens Gambit (named after the burrow), in which Kate McKinnon portrays a woman with a strong Queens accent who plays chess against Taylor-Joy’s Beth in the basement of Beth’s orphanage where she first discovered the game.Other pitches followed:
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