{"id":163145,"date":"2025-12-01T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163145\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:34:06","slug":"sydney-sweeney-interview-on-christy-euphoria-and-kim-novak-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163145\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Interview on Christy, Euphoria and Kim Novak Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cWhenever I hear someone say \u2018Thank you for doing this, I have dealt with this in my lifetime\u2019 or \u2018I know someone who is dealing with this,\u2019 and they share their story, that has meant so much to me,\u201d says Sydney Sweeney<\/a>, discussing responses she has received to her latest film, Christy<\/a>, in which she plays a trailblazing boxer and domestic abuse survivor, during a recording of The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Awards Chatter<\/a> podcast at Chapman University\u2019s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. \u201cI\u2019ve never had a character that has truly impacted people\u2019s lives in that type of way, and it\u2019s kind of been life-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Christy, a film based on real people and events, which David Mich\u00f4d (Animal Kingdom) directed and on which Sweeney served as a producer, the 28-year-old plays Christy Martin<\/a>, a young woman from West Virginia who became a major figure in the world of women\u2019s boxing in the 1990s, while privately facing increasingly horrific abuse at home from her coach-turned-husband, Jim Martin (played by Ben Foster in the film).<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney has previously received widespread acclaim from critics and the industry for her work, particularly for her performances on the TV shows Euphoria<\/a> and The White Lotus, both of which brought her Emmy nominations, and in the 2023 film Reality, for which she received a Critics Choice Award nomination. She also anchored \u2014\u00a0and produced \u2014 the 2023 rom-com film Anyone But You, which grossed $220 million worldwide, making it a bona fide blockbuster. But never before has she received the sort of Oscar buzz\u00a0that she is garnering right now for Christy, in which she appears in virtually every scene and gives a truly transformative performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was released in theaters by Black Bear Pictures on Nov. 7. While it has returned only $2 million at the box office against its $15 million budget, and while it has polarized critics (it\u2019s at 66 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), much like Sweeney has polarized social media (thanks to her recent American Eagle jeans ad), the bottom line is that those who love the film \u2014\u00a0including quite a lot of industry insiders and awards voters \u2014 really love it (it has a 96 percent RT score from audiences). And if you love Christy, then you love Sweeney\u2019s star turn in it.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the course of this episode, Sweeney opens up about how she got her start as a child actor, and why she felt responsible for the subsequent dissolution of her parents\u2019 marriage; how her career finally began to gain traction via TV\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale and Sharp Objects and the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood before exploding thanks to Euphoria; and how Reality, while little seen, meant a lot to her and elevated her standing in the eyes of filmmakers, including Mich\u00f4d.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also discusses how she learned about \u2014\u00a0and why she so aggressively pursued \u2014 Christy. She elaborates about how she drew upon her prior fight training \u2014 and did extensive additional training, as well as diet and exercise \u2014 to put on 35 pounds of muscle (\u201cI went back home to Idaho and I turned my grandma\u2019s shed into my Rocky gym, I built a floor ring and I hung some heavy bags, and I brought my trainer up and I worked out every single day for three months\u201d). She talks about what she learned from spending time with Martin herself (\u201cWithin like five seconds of meeting her, she became my best friend \u2014\u00a0I was like, \u2018I want you around 24\/7\u2032\u201d). And she describes how, in pursuit of verisimilitude, she volunteered to not just punch others, but also to actually get punched herself, in the film (\u201cWe were just pummeling each other; I mean, there were bloody noses, bruises, I got a concussion, like, we were going at it\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney also teases her upcoming films The Housemaid<\/a>, in which she stars opposite Amanda Seyfried (\u201cIt\u2019s juicy, it\u2019s a thriller, it\u2019s a wild fun ride, it\u2019s hot \u2014 you guys are gonna love it\u201d), and Scandalous!, a film that she is producing and hired Colman Domingo to direct, in which she will play the legendary actress Kim Novak opposite David Jonsson\u2019s Sammy Davis Jr. (\u201cIt\u2019s been a labor of love\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd, upon being asked to name the biggest misconception about her, she replies with a laugh: \u201cDon\u2019t even go there \u2014 I mean, name \u2019em, man!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhenever I hear someone say \u2018Thank you for doing this, I have dealt with this in my lifetime\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3702,74459,2020,4111,146,56442,85,46,147,10792],"class_list":{"0":"post-163145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awards-chatter","9":"tag-awards-chatter-podcast","10":"tag-christy","11":"tag-christy-martin","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-euphoria","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-sydney-sweeney","17":"tag-the-housemaid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}