Connie Britton Is Playing a Texas Mom Again in a New Reality Winner Biopic

Reality Winner, the decorated U.S. Air Force veteran who spent three years in federal prison for leaking a classified document on Russian hacking in the 2016 election, is prohibited by her criminal sentencing from profiting from movies about her story. That’s too bad for Winner and her family, because in the past three years, three feature films have been made about the unusually named South Texas native—the most recent two with serious star power.First came the documentary United States vs. Reality Winner, in 2021. Then, in 2023, the play Is This a Room, a staged reading of the transcript of her interrogation by the FBI, was adapted into the claustrophobic drama Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney. This Friday the coming-of-age biopic Winner, which stars Emilia Jones (CODA) in the title role…

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