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Sydney Sweeney Details “Crazy” 30-Pound Transformation To Play Christy Martin In Biopic: “My Body Was Completely Different”


Sydney Sweeney is sharing the 'crazy' 30-pound body transformation she had to play female boxer Christy Martin in a new biopic releasing this year.

Sweeney, who also donned brown contact lenses and a brunette wig fashioned into a mullet-like hairstyle for the role, added, “My body was completely different. Amid production for the film last year, which has since wrapped, Sweeney shared the first photos of herself as Martin, writing at the time on social media, “Over the past few months, i’ve been immersed in training to bring to life the story of an incredible woman—a true champion who fought battles both inside and outside the ring. The as-yet untitled biopic, which hails from a script co-written by Michôd and Mirrah Foulkes, follows Martin’s story as the first breakout in U.S. female boxing.

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