BGN interviews Marielle Heller (Alma Wheatley) in the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama The Queen’s Gambit is a comingofage story that explores the true cost of genius. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya TaylorJoy) discovers an astonishing talent for chess while developing an addiction to tranquilizers provided by the state as a sedative for the children. Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast while determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the maledominated world of competitive chess.

The series is directed and written by twotime Academy Award nominee Scott Frank and executive produced by Frank, William Horberg and Allan Scott, who also cocreated the series.

Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf
Video Editor: Kassandra Igbokwe

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