In a weird kind of way, Margot looks more like Nancy Kerrigan, and less like Tonya Harding, but I’m sure the directors will figure it all out.
According to Entertainment Weekly — the Suicide Squad actress will keep her momentum going as she’s cast to star as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the upcoming movie ‘I, Tonya.’
Harding was one of the most vilified athletes in American sports history. She rose to prominence at 21 years old, winning the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and nabbing second in the World Championships. She was pegged as a favorite for the 1994 Winter Olympics.
A month before the Games, fellow American skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Harding’s ex-husband and one of her bodyguards hired someone to break Kerrigan’s legs ahead of the competition. The resulting attack caused a bruised leg and forced Kerrigan to withdraw from the competition, which Harding won.
Harding pleaded guilty in March 1994 to conspiring to hinder prosecution in the attack and was ultimately banned from the U.S. Figure Skating Association for life.
Harding went on to become a professional boxer, while also releasing a sex-tape.
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