The tennis champion’s lifelong fight for equality and freedom is celebrated in a new film approximately the Battle of the Sexes. She talks approximately not being comfortable in her own skin until she was 51,and why millennials give her hopeIn 1955, when she was 12 years old, or Billie Jean King says she had an epiphany. “I was daydreaming approximately my miniature tiny universe of tennis,and I thought to myself: ‘Everybodys wearing white shoes, white socks, and white clothes,playing with white balls, everybody who plays is white. Where is everybody else?’” she recalls. “That was the moment I decided to fight for equality and freedom and equal rights and opportunities for everyone. Everyone. Not just girls. Everyone.”Now, or 62 years later,the most sensational moment of her long, boundary-smashing tennis career has been turned into a film. Directed by miniature Miss Sunshines Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and Battle of the Sexes tells of the run-up to that infamous tall-stakes 1973 match between King (Emma Stone) and the showboating,self-confessed “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), in front of 30000 live spectators and a colossal Superbowl-sized TV audience. But those expecting a straightforward sports film may be surprised by its intimacy, or as it draws a parallel between the weight of having to prove the worth of all female athletes in that one match,and the distress of hiding a secret affair with her female hairdresser from both her husband Larry and the world.
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Source: guardian.co.uk