Sydney Sweeney on 'Reality' and Humanizing the Person Behind the Headlines

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We spoke w/ sydney_sweeney and TinaSatter about Reality and humanizing the person behind the headlines.

From director/co-writer Tina Satter and based on her play “Is This a Room,” the HBO Original film Reality tells the story of what happened when 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner had FBI agents show up at her home to question her. Once there, they spent June 3, 2017 trying to get to the bottom of the extent of her role in mishandling classified information about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

SYDNEY SWEENEY: First, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I definitely was very intimidated by the script itself because it was the transcript and because I usually am very free with the dialogue of my characters. I wanted to make sure the dialogue was as exact as possible, and that was a new challenge for myself. I would beat myself up, trying to make sure that I got it perfectly. That was its own challenge.

About 50 minutes into this, there are some close-ups that are just so emotionally compelling to watch, when Reality is talking about folding the papers and taking them out in her pantyhose.

How did you guys feel about Reality Winner going into all of this? And then, having dug into her and this story, having made this, having lived in her shoes, having put all this together, did that change how you feel about her, at all?

 

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