{"id":178957,"date":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178957\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","slug":"sydney-sweeney-breaks-her-silence-on-quitting-acting-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178957\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney breaks her silence on \u2018quitting’ acting career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sydney<\/p>\n

Sydney Sweeney breaks her silence on \u2018quitting’ acting career<\/p>\n

Sydney Sweeney opened up about a surprising moment in her life when she almost walked away from acting while filming her intense new boxing biopic Christy.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old actress completely transformed herself to play real fighter Christy Martin. <\/p>\n

Sydney trained twice a day, gained 35 pounds of muscle and pushed her body to the limit. <\/p>\n

She even walked away with a concussion and bloody noses during filming.<\/p>\n

But none of that made her want to quit the movie, instead, it made the actress think about leaving Hollywood for boxing. <\/p>\n

In a talk with Ethan Hawke for Variety and CNN\u2019s Actors on Actors, the Euphoria star said the physical work reminded her of her childhood when she used to kickbox. <\/p>\n

The Anyone But You actress said the training made her feel alive again and even joked that she thought about quitting acting to become a fighter.<\/p>\n

Sweeney shared that every fight in the film came from Christy\u2019s real matches. <\/p>\n

She told the stunt team she wanted everything to feel real and they agreed. <\/p>\n

Moreover, the result was tough but exciting work that brought her closer to the character.<\/p>\n

The Housemaid star further spoke about returning to Euphoria and said she just wrapped Season 3, explaing that playing Cassie pushed her to take emotional risks and trust her instincts. <\/p>\n

She said the team always loved the wild takes because those moments felt the most honest.<\/p>\n

Sweeney later defended her recent movie Christy after it missed out on Golden Globe nominations, sharing a Sports Illustrated cover with Christy and wrote that it was the most important film shes done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney breaks her silence on \u2018quitting’ acting career Sydney Sweeney opened up about a surprising moment in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-178957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}