What Happened to Chrissie Hynde and Where is She Now?

In Danny Boyle's Sex Pistols biopic Pistol, Chrissie Hynde is down on her luck and struggling to get her big break on the music scene.

The singer may have the talent but, as the character puts it in the show, she struggled with "big steaming piles of sexism" to get to where she is today.

In real life, Hynde was indeed friends with the members of the Sex Pistols, as is depicted in Pistol, and she even almost married one, but what happened to her since then?

Here, Newsweek explores more.

What Happened to Chrissie Hynde and Where is She Now?

Hynde is a successful musician in her own right, though it did take time for her to get her big break like Pistol suggests as she tried multiple times to make a band only for it to fall through.

The singer tried to make bands both in the U.K. and in France to no avail, though she did perform alongside several outfits, including The Damned.

In 1978, Hynde formed the group The Pretenders with Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers, and it was with this band that the singer was finally able to see some success.

The band has released 11 albums in total as a group, their latest record was called "Hate for Sale" which came out in July 2020, and Hynde was even inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

As shown in Pistol, Hynde and Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones did have a brief romantic relationship with each other, and they have remained friends ever since.

Hynde even wrote the foreword to Jones' book "Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol" which the show is based on.

The musician even worked closely with the show's creative team, and helped her onscreen counterpart Sydney Chandler transform into a younger version of herself.

Chandler told Newsweek about what it was like to meet the singer she was set to play, saying: "I read her book first, and the first meeting I didn't have any plans as far as questions, I just wanted to kind of take her in.

"And, you know, the interesting part was learning her mannerisms, seeing how she moves, how she talks and it was really special.

"At one point, I went over to her place and she had me pick a guitar. She's like, 'pick a guitar, acoustic or electric, pick one.'

"[I was] learning how to play, I picked the acoustic and she sits me down and she's like, 'alright, play me my songs. If you can play in front of me you can play them from Danny.'"

Chandler added: "I knew what she was doing. I was like, 'oh, man,' but it broke the ice and... we chatted for hours after that. It was really special, yeah. Chrissie gave me a lot personally, she gave me a lot of confidence.

"I can't play [guitar], I was still learning, I learned for the for the show. But she showed me how she moved and just talked music. I love music and she loves music, so that kind of was a great, great starting point."

Pistol is available to stream in full on Hulu now.