Sydney Sweeney Like to transform her body for the upcoming Christy Martin Biopic.
“I feel very strong,” Sweeney, 27, told Vanity Fair In an interview published on Thursday, September 4. “I love it. It’s just my dream to be able to lose myself and become someone else’s boat.”
The actress gained 30 to 35 pounds, portraying the former professional boxer who spent three months boxing a day and worked with a nutritionist for several hours.
Sweeney trained in Jujitsu as a teenager, struggling hard and kickboxing, and she spent some time learning the proper boxing skills and stance.
“My position and many techniques are different from boxing,” she said of her past martial arts experience. “You keep balance in different ways and of course, you’re not being brought to the ground – everything is on your feet.”
After honing his skills, Sweeney walked into the ring to participate in the real battle.
“Every battle you see [in Christy]we are actually punching holes at each other. She explained: “We will give it all.
director David Michôd Admiring Sweeney’s dedication to the character.
“She wants to do work. She wants to train, want to fight, want to change herself, we’re going to need all of that,” he told The Outlet.

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“I like it,” she said. “I got on the boat to play Christie, and I was trained for about three and a half months. I started eating. I did an hour of weight training in the morning, a taekwondo for about two hours, and then another hour at night.”
Sweeney revealed that her body was “completely different.”
She shared: “I don’t usually wear anything. I usually wear jeans in size 23, I wear 27 size. My boobs get bigger. My ass get huge. It’s crazy! I was like, ‘Oh, my god’.” “It’s amazing, I’m so strong, like crazy tough.”
this Happy Then, Star had to change her body again in just seven weeks for the next project. Michôd, 52, told the media that he was shocked to see her look so different.
“I was shocked by her appearance change,” he told w. “I just see her as a lovely, tough mopt with late 80s hair, ready for the box. Sydney is happiest when it comes to ring punching and punching. It’s shocking to see her so charming.”
Christy follows Martin’s journey as one of America’s most successful female boxers. Her career began in 1989. She met with the manager James Martinand later became her husband. She won the World Women’s Super Middleweight Championship in 2009 and continued until 2012.
Christy, 57, was nearly dead in 2010 after being attacked by James. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. James was later convicted of second-degree murder. He is currently serving 25 years in prison.
In 2016, Christy became the first lady boxer to be elected to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Later, she was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2020, the first year that women were included in the vote.
Christie It premieres in the theater on November 7.

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