{"id":137476,"date":"2025-09-12T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:27:06","slug":"sydney-sweeney-looks-unrecognisable-in-trailer-for-new-boxing-biopic-christy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137476\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney looks &#8216;unrecognisable&#8217; in trailer for new boxing biopic &#8216;Christy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-linked-post=\"2667567388\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/showbiz\/sydney-sweeney-underrated-roles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a> has been seen for the first time in her role as Christy Martin in the upcoming biopic, &#8216;Christy&#8217;, sporting a 90s haircut and more muscular physique. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old is playing the legend who arguably put <a data-linked-post=\"2668244653\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/sport\/dan-hennessey-hughes-johnson-result\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boxing<\/a> on the map for women in the <a data-linked-post=\"2658772941\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/sport\/mma-basketball-batyr-ball-sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sport<\/a>, with the movie due for release on 7 November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer also explores the pro athlete\u2019s relationships with her conservative parents, dad John (Ethan Embry) and mom Joyce (Merritt Weaver), and her coach-turned-husband, Jim (Ben Foster).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/indy100-news-updates-whatsapp-channel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to join<\/a> the indy100&#8217;s free WhatsApp channel<\/p>\n<p>Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney has been seen for the first time in her role as Christy Martin in the upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1689,344,85,30000],"class_list":["post-137476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-sports","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137476","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=137476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}