Sydney Sweeney just admitted that she finds it “difficult” to ask for help.
speaks to Sky News about her new film Christie, which is based on the life of boxer Christy Martin, the American actress says it was a shared feeling between her and the character she portrays.
“I have a really hard time asking for help and my friends have really pointed it out to me recently and they’re like, ‘Sydney, it’s okay to ask. You can do this’. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I have a really hard time with it,” she admitted.
She added: “I think it’s hard, especially as a woman, there’s so much expectation on us to have it all together.”
“And asking for help is a sign of weakness. And we don’t want to be seen that way, though, [a man] can ask for it and nobody’s like, ‘ah, he’s weak’. But if a female director asks for help, it would be like, ‘oh, she’s not prepared for this role,'” Euphoria explained the actress.
The film’s director, David Michod, who also co-wrote the bio with his wife Mirrah Foulkes, agrees, saying it’s a sentiment his wife has also had in the industry.
“Mirrah had that experience a lot. It’s like women have to, as soon as they reveal that they don’t know something, it’s like, ‘oh, she’s unprepared, she doesn’t know what she’s doing, she’s out of her depth’. And I feel like I tell people I don’t know what I’m doing 20 times a day,” he admitted.
The movie Christie is based on Christy’s boxing career, depicting her struggles as a gay woman and the domestic violence and coercive control she was subjected to in her personal life by her husband and head trainer James ‘Jim’ Martin.
