Actress Ruby Rose has ripped into Sydney Sweeney for her performance in the lesbian boxing biopic Christy, branding her a “cretin” who “ruined the film.”
Released last Friday, Christy stars Sweeney as women’s boxing legend Christy Martin, a pioneer of the sport who overcame domestic abuse to become one of the most celebrated female boxers of the 1990s.
Yet the film debuted at a disastrous No.11 over the weekend, taking home just $1.3 million in what was one of the worst debuts ever for a movie released in over 2,000 American cinemas.
Sweeney posted a half-hearted defense of the project following the flop, thanking fans for supporting the movie and claiming she did it for the “people.”
Rose, who claims she was originally cast in the lead role, accused Sweeney of driving away the film’s

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