Ruby Rose Says Sydney Sweeney ‘Ruined’ Christy

Ruby Rose isn’t happy with the reception Christy has gotten, and she thinks one person is to blame: Sydney Sweeney. On Threads, the actor wrote, “The original Christy Martin script was incredible. Life changing. I was attached to play Cherry. Everyone had experience with the core material. Most of us were actually gay. It’s part of why I stayed in acting.” Rose then decried Sweeney and her team’s statements about the film’s box office. Rose claims Team Sweeney said they made the movie for “the people,” meaning gay people, but that “None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us. You’re a cretin and you ruined the film. Period. Christy deserved better.” Rose appears to be referring to the rumors of Sweeney’s MAGA affiliation and/or the American Eagle Jeans/genes controversy. When asked by GQ if she wanted to comment on the criticism of the ad, Sweeney said, “I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.”

Christy debuted at number 11 at the domestic box office this past weekend, with $1.3 million on over 2,000 screens. Tron: Ares in week five of its run pushed Christy out of the top ten with a $1.8 million take. However, critics praised Sweeney. Variety called her performance a “potent, true-note, game-changing knockout,” and Vulture’s Alison Willmore wrote that it’s potentially Oscar-worthy: “As a public figure, she is a blank space onto which increasingly unhinged discourse has been projected. As an actor, though, she can be spikily fascinating.”