TORONTO (Reuters) - Academy Award winner Emma Stone praised tennis great Billie Jean King's for pushing social change for women while battling her own insecurities at the Toronto premiere of "Battle of the Sexes" on Sunday night. Stone plays King in the story of her famous 1973 tennis match against retired former champion and male chauvinist Bobby Riggs, played by Steve Carell. Along with the highly-publicized grudge match, the film also covers King's sexual exploration via a off-court relationship with a woman. But more than 40 years later, the issue of equal pay, both in tennis and the wider working world, is still simmering. Stone and Carell had previously worked together on 2011's "Crazy, Stupid, Love".

Source: The Star September 11, 2017 03:33 UTC