Sydney Sweeney is taking the dismal box office performance of Christy , the R-rated biographical drama in which she plays trailblazing boxer Christy Martin, in her stride.

The film, directed by David Michôd, opened to $1.3m this weekend, making for one of the worst US starts ever for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters. Christy review – Sydney Sweeney fights a losing battle in cliched boxing biopic Read more

“We don’t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact,” Sweeney wrote on Instagram . “And christy has been the most impactful project of my life.”

The film, co-starring Ben Foster, Merritt Wever and Katy O’Brian, chronicles Martin’s rise to fame in the 1990s, as she went from the daughter of a West Virginia coal miner to one of the most prominent female

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