Sydney Sweeney has hit back after her new movie Christy tanked at the box office.
Taking to Instagram on Monday, the actress, 28, shared an impassioned post about the movie which sees Sydney play Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin.
Over the weekend, Christy, which ranked in the top 12 worst ever four movies showing on more than 2000 screens, grossed a meagre $1.3 million after being released in 2,011 theaters – averaging $649 per venue, according to The Wrap.
The Euphoria actress has found herself at the centre of several media storms over her political views, endured the end of a seven-year relationship and appeared to be given the cold shoulder by her peers at big A-list events.
In response to her critics, Sydney wrote on Monday: ‘I am so deeply proud of this movie. proud of the film david made. proud of the story we told…
Sydney Sweeney has hit back after her new movie Christy tanked at the box office
Taking to Instagram on Monday, the actress, 28, shared an impassioned post about the movie which sees Sydney play Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin
Christy’s paltry early returns at the box office comes about four months after Sweeney was at the center of controversy as result of an ad campaign for American Eagle
Sydney ensured she weathered the criticism in her impassioned post (pictured earlier this year)
‘Proud to represent someone as strong and resilient as Christy Martin. this experience has been one of the greatest honors of my life…
‘this film stands for survival, courage, and hope. through our campaigns, we’ve helped raise awareness for so many affected by domestic violence. we all signed on to this film with the belief that christy’s story could save lives…
‘thank you to everyone who saw, felt, and believed and will believe in this story for years to come. if christy gave even one woman the courage to take her first step toward safety, then we will have succeeded. so yes I’m proud…
‘why? because we don’t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact. and christy has been the most impactful project of my life. thank you christy. i love you.’
Sydney’s controversies came to a head this year when it was revealed she was a registered Republican voter and starred in a controversial American Eagle jeans advert which some deemed racist due to a pun linking ‘jeans’ and ‘genes’
Both of these controversies appear to be very much at odds with most views in woke Hollywood.
She perhaps hoped to distract from the noise about her personal life with the release of her new boxing biopic Christy – but that’s not gone that well either.
She was practically unrecognisable in the movie as she transformed
In promoting the film in an interview last Friday, she said she got so immersed in her role as Martin, she dealt with injuries including a bloody nose and a concussion
In promoting the film in an interview last Friday, she said she got so immersed in her role as Martin, she dealt with injuries including a bloody nose and a concussion.
The Emmy-nominated actress told The Sun about how she and her co-stars approached the fight scenes during production of the motion picture. ‘The girls and all the fights you see are real,’ the Spokane, Washington-born star said.
Sweeney told the outlet, ‘When I walked in and I met with everyone, I said, ‘I want you to hit me. And I want you to hit me hard. And can I hit you?”
She added, ‘When you watch all those fights, we’re actually hitting each other. We were knocking each other out, we were getting bloody noses. I got [a] concussion. We were actually fighting.’
The film, starring Sweeney as Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin, was released in 2,011 theaters, averaging $649 per venue, according to The Wrap
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‘I walked onto set everyday surrounded by a crew that poured their hearts and souls into this story,’ Sweeney said. ‘I fought alongside a group of women who became my family.
‘We trained harder than we ever thought we could then would end up singing our hearts out on the ring floor.’
Sweeney paid tribute to Martin, who she said inspired everyone on the movie ‘to step into our power.
‘Her story made us fight harder for ourselves and for every woman who has ever been silenced,’ Sweeney said. ‘This film was painful, joyful, resilient, beautiful, it was everything.’
She shared a slew of snaps from behind the scenes
Christy, who was Don King’s first-ever female client, gained national spotlight in March of 1996 when she captured the World Boxing Council women’s lightweight championship in a bloody Las Vegas bout against Deirdre Gogarty.
Christy, who was nicknamed The Coalminer’s Daughter, was on the undercard of the infamous 1997 bout in which Mike Tyson bit the ear of Evander Holyfield.
She is also the only female boxer to ever be featured on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated.
She also fought Laila Ali, the daughter of late boxing icon Muhammad Ali, in a high-profile 2003 bout in which Laila knocked her out.
According to BoxRec, Martin holds a record of 49-7-3, winning more than half of her contests with 31 career knockouts. Her last fight was a 2012 loss to Mia St. John.
Martin’s life story has been explored before for a cinematic project, as actress Amy Schumer was linked to a film about the boxer in April of 2018.
Sydney is pictured with the real Christy Martin last month
