Sydney Sweeney On The “Honor” Of Speaking To Real Whistleblower For ‘Reality’ Role — Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comSydney Sweeney passed through the Berlin Film Festival Saturday evening alongside playwright and director Tina Satter to debut their new feature Reality.
The film follows the story of real-life U.S. whistleblower Reality Winner, a former intelligence officer who was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for the unauthorized release of classified material (five years and three months).
Winner had passed documents to the media in 2018 about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. The Euphoria actor portrays Winner in the film, and she told press corps in Berlin that she studied many clips of Winner’s past interviews to nail her mannerisms. “When I was auditioning, I went and found as many interviews as I could of Reality so that I could watch how she speaks, moves, and her different mannerisms,” Sweeney said.
Sweeney continued to say that she took all of her visual research into her audition, which helped her land the part. However, she added that it was the private conversations she was able to have with Winner that best equipped her for the role. “I had the honor and the privilege of being able to communicate with Reality,” Sweeney said. “I was able to Zoom with her.
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