{"id":135530,"date":"2025-09-11T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:40:08","slug":"sydney-sweeney-fights-for-the-title-in-boxing-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135530\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Fights For the Title in Boxing Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBlack Bear has released the trailer for \u201cChristy<\/a>,\u201d a new sports biopic starring Sydney Sweeney<\/a> as the International Boxing Hall of Fame icon Christy Martin.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther cast members include Katy O\u2019Brian, Merritt Wever, Ben Foster, Ethan Embry, Chad L. Coleman, Valyn Hall and Tony Cavalero. David Mich\u00f4d directed and co-wrote the film with Mirrah Foulkes from a story by Katherine Fugate.<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney told Variety<\/a> at the Toronto International Film Festival, where \u201cChristy\u201d held its world premiere, that she packed on 30 pounds to embody the role of the world-class fighter.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had a nutritionist work with me as well as a weight trainer and a boxing trainer,\u201d Sweeney explained, \u201cWe upped my calorie intake and I started taking a lot of protein shakes and supplements and eating everything. I ate a lot of Smuckers, a lot of PB and J sandwiches, milkshakes, kind of just constantly always eating because we were so active. I was constantly burning it all off at the same time. So keeping it all up was quite a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety film critic Owen Gleiberman was very keen on the film. In his enthusiastic review<\/a>, he praised Sweeney for her \u201ctrue-note, game-changing knockout of a performance.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s fun to see her in the ring, hunched and concentrated, pummeling away, then felling an opponent with a merciless left hook \u2014 but whenever that happens, her ebullience comes out,\u201d Gleiberman added. \u201cShe grins in triumph and pumps her fists in the air like a kid at her own birthday party; the pleasure she takes in winning is part of what makes her a star.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers include Foulkes, John Friedberg, Andrew Golov, Michael Heimler, Harrison Huffman, David Levine, Clementine Quittner, Ryan Schwartz, Nick Shumaker and Brad Zimmerman. Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Justin Lothrop, Teddy Schwarzman, Brent Stiefel, Sweeney and Mich\u00f4d serve as producers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChristy\u201d comes to theaters Nov. 7. Check out the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Bear has released the trailer for \u201cChristy,\u201d a new sports biopic starring Sydney Sweeney as the International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,84187,85,30000],"class_list":{"0":"post-135530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-christy","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sydney-sweeney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}