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Ruby Rose pulls no punches when it comes to “Christy,” the big-screen biopic starring Sydney Sweeney as boxing champion Christy Martin.

In a fiery post shared on Threads early Tuesday, the “Orange Is the New Black” actor lashed out at Martin’s portrayal of Sweeney and revealed that he had once been in the running for a role in the film.

“Christy Martin’s original script was incredible. Changing life. “I was given the role of Cherry,” Rose wrote. probably alluding to the character of Rosie, based on Martin’s real-life girlfriend, Sherry Lusk. “They all had experience with the core material. Most of us were really gay. It’s part of why I continued acting. Defeated Roles happen all the time.”

Rose, however, specifically took issue with Sweeney’s representatives, who have been publicly defending “Christy” to News and other outlets after the film earned just $1.3 million at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend, despite earning respectable reviews at film festivals before its release.

“For their PR to talk about the failure and say the SS did it for the ‘people’.” she wrote. “None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them parading around pretending to be us.”

Addressing Sweeney specifically, he added: “You’re a jerk and you ruined the movie. Period. Christy deserved better.”

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Sweeney’s representatives did not immediately respond to News’s request for comment on Rose’s comments. On Monday, however, the “Euphoria” actress defended her performance in “Christy” against detractors focused on the film’s disappointing box office debut, noting that “we don’t always make art just for the numbers, we make it for impact.”

“We all signed on for this film with the belief that Christy’s story could save lives,” he wrote on Instagram. “Thank you to everyone who saw, felt, believed and will believe in this story for years to come. If Christy gave even one woman the courage to take her first step toward safety, then we will have been successful. So yeah, I’m proud.”

Sweeney, who will be seen opposite Amanda Seyfried in “The Housemaid” next month, was at the epicenter of a media storm in July after appearing in an American Eagle ad campaign that celebrated the way her “great genes” made her look in the brand’s “great jeans.”

Many viewers interpreted the ad’s use of the double meaning of “jeans” as an allusion to eugenics, and some even compared it to “white supremacy” and “Nazi propaganda.”

The debate eventually reached the White House, where Vice President JD Vance suggested the reaction was indicative of why Democrats had become less popular with young men, and President Donald Trump reveled in reports that Sweeney was a registered Republican.

In an interview with GQ published last week, Sweeney called Trump and Vance’s words of support “surreal,” but otherwise attempted to approach the controversy carefully.