If you don’t know who Tonya Harding is, the new movie I, TONYA may help remedy that. It’s easily the most seedy story to ever come out of The Olympics, as Harding was the devious mind behind an attack on competing figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. The movie features Margot Robbie as Harding, along with Sebastian Stan as her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, and features Allison Janney, Paul Walter Hauser, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, and Mckenna Grace. Directed by Craig Gillespie (LARS AND THE REAL GIRL), this promises to be an outrageous look at the real life events that made Tonya a rather infamous figure. Check out the first trailer below and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
Based on unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is the darkly comedic tale of American figure skater Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy has forever been defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived and worse-executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, a tour-de-force performance from Allison Janney as her acid-tongued mother LaVona Golden, and an original screenplay by Steven Rogers, Craig Gillespie’s I, TONYA is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding’s life and career in all of its unchecked–and checkered–glory.