Last fall, I got up early on a Sunday morning and trekked down to Tribeca for an early screening of Christy, a biopic about female boxer Christy Martin. Plenty of movies screen early and often for critics as they jockey for positions in the annual end-of-year awards-season race – though not all of them bring a famous sex symbol out to talk up her movie to a bunch of nerdy writers and media types. But Sydney Sweeney did indeed grace us with her presence after the film to talk about her process, her performance, and her love for the real-life Christy Martin. She didn’t talk about wanting to score an Oscar nomination, of course, but you don’t show up to chat about your movie for an audience of 100 on a Sunday morning if you haven’t been told some symbolic gold might be in the cards.
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