Sydney Sweeney walked straight into a storm when Christy opened to a rough box-office weekend. The biographical drama, where she steps into Christy Martin’s gloves , drew only $1.3 million in more than 2,000 theaters and landed among the weakest wide releases ever, per Variety. Sweeney did not flinch. She responded with a long Instagram message and explained that she makes work for meaning, not only for metrics. “We don’t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact,” she wrote, calling the film the most meaningful project of her life.

The film tracks Christy Martin’s rise in boxing along with the violence she survived off the canvas. Variety critic Owen Gleiberman praised Sweeney’s transformation and described the movie as a harsh, intimate look at abuse and control. Even

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