{"id":2149,"date":"2025-09-11T13:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:39:57","slug":"sydney-sweeney-fights-for-the-title-in-boxing-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=2149","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Fights For the Title in Boxing Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Black 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 Other 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 Sweeney told Variety<\/em><\/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 \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 Variety<\/em> 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 \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 Executive 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 \u201cChristy\u201d comes to theaters Nov. 7. Check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n

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