With writer-director Scott Frank’s fantastic limited series, The Queen’s Gambit, now streaming on Netflix, I recently got to speak with Marielle Heller about returning to acting after spending the last few years directing A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Can You Ever Forgive Me. [caption id="attachment_936682" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Netflix[/caption] If you haven’t seen the trailers, The Queen’s Gambit is based on the novel by Watler Tevis and follows Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), who was abandoned to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s. While there, she discovers …

From writer Bruno Heller and director Danny Cannon, and based on DC characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, the 10-episode Epix drama series Pennyworth follows Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), as a former British SAS soldier in his 20s who forms a security company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) in 1960s London. Not yet Bruce’s father, Thomas is a young billionaire from the East Coast of the United States, who finds himself in need of Alfred’s services, especially with a mysterious organization, known as the Raven Society, out …