Sydney Sweeney starrer HBO’s Reality based on true events? Here’s all you may want to know

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Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old intelligence specialist, found herself confronted by two FBI agents on a fateful day in June 2017..

Unbeknownst to her, the following 104 minutes would change her life, implicating her in the alleged mishandling of classified information connected to Russian interference in the 2016 election...

Bringing this captivating encounter to the screen, HBO's Reality, available for streaming on Max starting May 29, intensifies the drama..

Sydney Sweeney delivers a remarkable performance as Winner, breathing life into Tina Satter's acclaimed 2019 play, Is This a Room, incorporating verbatim dialogue from the actual FBI interrogation transcript...

During this time, she made a controversial choiceto print out a single classified document, clandestinely remove it from the federal facility in Georgia where she was employed, and send it to The Intercept, an online news outlet based in Washington, D.C..