It’s been a year and a half since The Queen’s Gambit swept through Netflix’s audiences and announced “checkmate” on eleven different Primetime Emmy Awards, and even though weirder things have happened in the media landscape since then (Morbin’ Time, anyone?), the attention garnered by the chess drama was one of the biggest surprises in recent years.
This is a sentiment shared by Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who portrays Benny Watts in the show. In an interview with The Guardian, the actor gave an abridged account of the conversations that led up to what would become The Queen’s Gambit.
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