00:00Here's your breakdown of what to watch this weekend in THR's now screening.
00:04First, THR's chief TV critic Daniel Feinberg has his picks of what you should check out.
00:08HBO's The Undoing doesn't lack for star power, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in front of the camera and David E. Kelly and Suzanne Beer behind it.
00:16However, the predictable thriller, about being ultra-wealthy and ultra-implicated in murder, is best enjoyed as a campy mess.
00:24It is what rich, entitled people do when threatened.
00:30They conceal the ugly truths.
00:33The weekend's real stand-up for me, though, is Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, another seven-episode limited series for grown-ups from Scott Frank, who previously made the streamers Godless.
00:44Anya Taylor-Joy plays a chess prodigy dealing with personal demons, addictions, and a male-dominated pursuit in this adaptation of Walter Tevis' novel.
00:54It's brilliantly shot, intellectually ambitious, and full of stellar period music and production details, all held together by Taylor-Joy's performance, which should be an awards contender for months to come.
01:08Chess isn't always competitive.
01:11Chess can also be beautiful.
01:15Thanks, Daniel, Anya Taylor-Joy opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about her level of chess knowledge before taking on the part.
01:22Zero. None. I knew there were pieces. I knew there was a board. But that's actually kind of what was awesome about getting to do this, was that I got invited into a very secret world that's super cool and really interesting.
01:36Plus, the film Rebecca, starring Armie Hammer and Lily James, is now streaming on Netflix. James told THR what made her want to star in the adaptation of the 1938 gothic novel.
01:47I loved getting in her mind. I loved living in her anxiety and in her pain and her jealousy and her obsession and then sort of rising like a phoenix at the end, almost.
01:56This is all very new to me.
01:58Oh, I'm sure you won't disappoint him, madam, if that's your concern.
02:01And After We Collided, an adaptation of the second novel in the After series by author Anna Todd and the sequel to the 2019 film After is now playing in theaters.
02:11Pardon Scott? I didn't peg you as a bad boy type.
02:14Let me ask you this. Are you in love with him?
02:17Leading lady Josephine Langford told THR how this film takes the After franchise to the next level.
02:22I think that After We Collided, it takes it to the next level in that the intensity's dialed up and there's added humor in this one.
02:30And I think there's more of a variation in, like, the style and the tone and the genre and just all those ways.
02:37Plus, Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat sequel titled Borat Subsequent Movie Film is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
02:44While the risk of coronavirus remains low, as the president said yesterday, we're ready for it.
02:51Michael Pennis, I brought the girl for you.
02:54Until next week's Now Screening, I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.
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