Actress Sydney Sweeney took her job critically after accepting a task to painting boxing legend Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic, and he or she even obtained within the ring with the previous champion to show it.
A clip launched by TMZ reveals the Euphoria actress buying and selling palms with Martin whereas filming the film about her life. Whereas she was considerably new to boxing, Sweeney is definitely an avid UFC fan and he or she has skilled in each MMA and Brazilian jiu-jitsu previously.
Sweeney took on the extremely bodily position whereas getting in large form to play the boxer, who she paid homage to after filming wrapped late final yr.
“We now have wrapped filming Christy Martin’s story and it has been one of the vital emotional, transformative experiences of my life,” Sweeney wrote on Instagram. “Christy’s journey is so deeply inspiring, and having her by my facet throughout this course of was nothing wanting surreal. There have been moments on set the place I’d look over at her standing by the displays, cheering us on, and I’d simply change into so emotional.
“Realizing what she’s endured, what she’s pushed by means of to be there in that second—it made me need to cry.”
Previous to the sparring footage being launched, Sweeney additionally clapped again at quite a few on-line trolls who insulted her seems and physique transformation after she spent weeks getting in form to play a boxer within the upcoming biopic.
Sweeney posted a video displaying off her transformation and the exhausting work she endured to not solely appear like Martin within the movie but additionally show the bodily attributes that made her such a power within the ring.
There’s nonetheless no official title or launch date for the biopic, however it’s anticipated that the film results in theaters earlier than the tip of 2025.
