{"id":119903,"date":"2025-09-07T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:29:08","slug":"sydney-sweeney-gained-30-pounds-for-boxing-drama-christy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119903\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Gained 30 Pounds for Boxing Drama ‘Christy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor her starring role in the female boxing drama \u201cChristy,\u201d Sydney Sweeney<\/a> kept an ice bucket handy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was getting pummeled,\u201d Sweeney said during an interview at the\u00a0Variety\u00a0Toronto Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0Studio. \u201cThey were holding ice packs to my face in between takes. I was getting knocked up. I had some gnarly bruises after that.\u201d One particular scene in which she recreated the famous fight between the film\u2019s real-life inspiration, trailblazing boxing champ Christy Martin, and Laila Ali left her with a \u201ccrazy black eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cAnyone but You\u201d star filmed all of the film\u2019s boxing sequences \u201cback to back to back\u201d over the course of a single week while continuing to train in the off hours. \u201cI\u2019d wrap after a 12-hour shoot and then I\u2019d go train for another two hours. That whole week was grueling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which made its world premiere at TIFF on Sept. 5 to rapturous applause, features Sweeney in a way that audiences have never seen her \u2014 stripped of glamor, on the ropes and unleashing a full spectrum of emotions as a woman who dominates in the ring but is the victim of domestic violence at home. (Ben Foster plays the trainer\/husband who is abusive both physically and emotionally.) For director\u00a0David Mich\u00f4d, the choice to cast Sweeney was obvious.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI knew that she was already a fighter,\u201d Mich\u00f4d said. \u201cI saw her in that HBO film \u2018Reality\u2019 from a few years ago. So I knew she had acting chops, and I was excited by the prospect of taking those acting chops to a bigger audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn order to bulk up for the role, she took an all-you-can-eat approach and quickly found that she was \u201cwearing a lot of elastic waistbands\u201d instead of her usual wardrobe.<\/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\tThe film, which Black Bear will release on Nov. 7 in the thick of awards season, is drawing Oscar buzz for Sweeney. For the actress who has two Emmy nominations under her belt for \u201cEuphoria\u201d and \u201cWhite Lotus,\u201d she\u2019s taking the talk in stride.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m just glad that Christy\u2019s story is out there,\u201d Sweeney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For her starring role in the female boxing drama \u201cChristy,\u201d Sydney Sweeney kept an ice bucket handy. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,9298,44277,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}