Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor [SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers specific to Marielle Heller’s character, Alma Wheatley, in “The Queen’s Gambit.”]Marielle Heller insists she never imagined that “The Queen’s Gambit” would be such a huge hit.“I had no idea how the chess was going to play out,” Heller, who plays Alma Wheatley, the mother of a 1950s female chess prodigy (Anya Taylor-Joy), in the Netflix series, says on today’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I just wasn’t sure it was going to feel compelling because I don’t know anything about chess…Truthfully, I was nervous about it.
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