Sentences with phrase «ice skater becomes»

Not exact matches

The stakes on I, Tonya were made clear to Quinn and his publicity veep Christina Zisa when they spent last Thanksgiving ice skating in Portland with Harding herself, and allayed her fears that her six - year - old son not feel the same level of shame that the skater did when she became scarred by the scandal that ended her skating career.

It starts off going back to Tonya's early skating days as she grew up to become one of the greatest skaters to hit the ice.

Tonya Harding was an ice - skater in the 1990s who became famous for nailing some extremely difficult manoeuvres.

Covering the waterfront of Harding's life from when her domineering mother pushed her onto the world stage of figure skaters, through her emerging stardom on the ice to becoming a promising U.S. Olympian to the scandal where she tried to violently eliminate her main competitor Nancy Kerrigan and a marriage that involved domestic abuse — this film has it all but chooses a Rashomon - like storytelling device to play it all out onscreen.

It wouldn't be all that difficult for a talented director and a sharp screenwriter to make a breezy and darkly funny period - piece sports comedy about 1990s ice skater Tonya Harding, and the rivalry with Nancy Kerrigan that resulted in that famous attack on Ms. Kerrigan — and Harding becoming one of the most hated individuals on the planet.

Tonya didn't possess many of the qualities the snobby figure skating world expected from its stars — she was more athlete than ice capades — but her talent was undeniable when she became the first American female skater to ever land a triple axel at the 1991 World Championships.

She was once a competitive ice skater with serious promise, becoming the first American woman to land the notoriously hard triple axel jump in competition.