Sydney Sweeney\u2019s<\/a> newest movie is a flop, and her fellow celebs aren\u2019t holding back their feelings about the controversial star\u2019s box office numbers.<\/p>\n Sweeney\u2019s starring turn as lesbian boxer Christy Martin<\/a> in the biopic Christy<\/a> opened to $1.3 million this weekend, making it one of the worst US starts ever for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters.<\/p>\n In the wake of her box office bomb and her recent controversies, some stars didn\u2019t hold back in their criticism of the 28-year-old Euphoria actress.<\/p>\n Sweeney has been a lightning rod for months now, ever since her controversial American Eagle ad, which featured the blond, blue-eyed, white star making a double entendre with \u201cgreat jeans,\u201d and \u201cgreat genes.\u201d<\/p>\n After the fierce backlash to the perceived racism of the ad, it was revealed that Sweeney registered as a Republican prior to the 2024 election, and she did a widely criticized interview with GQ, where she was given the opportunity to push back against white supremacy and refused to engage.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n x.com<\/a><\/p>\n Prior to Christy tanking, Republicans started singing Sweeney\u2019s praises, but other stars have been vocal critics of the actress, with SZA liking a scathing post about her, Aimee Lee Wood commenting a throwing up emoji on Sweeney\u2019s GQ interview, and Christina Ricci commenting \u201c100%\u201d<\/u><\/span> on a video by content creator Jupiter Baal criticizing the interview.<\/p>\n Now, other celebs are hitting back against Sweeney and her poor box office showing. For Sweeney\u2019s part, she\u2019s happy that she made a film about the true story of Martin\u2019s resiliency after she was nearly beaten to death by her husband, who was ultimately convicted of her attempted murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact,\u201d Sweeney captioned a lengthy Instagram post. \u201cAnd Christy has been the most impactful project of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n But what did her fellow celebs have to say?<\/p>\n screenshot of Ruby Rose thread about Sydney Sweeney<\/p>\n Via Threads @rubyrose<\/p>\n Orange is the New Black star Ruby Rose wrote a scathing post on Threads, criticizing the film for hiring a straight actress to play the main character and admitting that she was originally attached to play Christy, before ripping into Sweeney for pretending to be queer and calling her a \u201ccretin.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor her PR to talk about it flopping and saying SS did it for the \u2018people,\u201d Rose wrote. \u201cNone of \u2018the people\u2019 want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us. You\u2019re a cretin and you ruined the film. Period. Christy deserved better.\u201d<\/p>\n www.reddit.com<\/a><\/p>\n During one of his signature Daily Show rants, host Jon Stewart lampooned Christy and made fun of people\u2019s shock that her new conservative fans didn\u2019t run to the theater to watch a movie about an out lesbian boxer.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new Sydney Sweeney movie, box office bupkis,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cApparently, her new MAGA fan base didn\u2019t show up in droves to see a biopic about a lesbian professional boxer who overcomes domestic violence to live her truth. Who could have seen that coming?\u201d<\/p>\nRuby Rose<\/h3>\n
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