Sydney Sweeney discusses gaining 30 kilos for Christy Martin biopic
Sydney Sweeney was devoted to embodying pioneering feminine boxer Christy Martin for an upcoming biopic.
The actor shared that she gained greater than 30 kilos and spent months coaching for the position, telling W Journal, “My physique was fully totally different.”
“I liked it,” she stated. “I got here onboard to play Christy, and I had about three and a half months of coaching. I began consuming. I weight-trained within the morning for an hour, kickboxed noon for about two hours, after which weight-trained once more at evening for an hour.”
Amid her intense exercise routine and weight achieve, Sweeney shared that she went up 4 sizes and “didn’t slot in any of my garments.”
“I’m normally a dimension 23 in denims, and I used to be sporting a dimension 27. My boobs received larger. And my butt received large. It was loopy! I used to be like, Oh my God,” she reportedly laughed. “However it was superb: I used to be so sturdy, like loopy sturdy.”
To change into Martin, the “Anybody However You” star additionally needed to put on brown contact lenses and a brown wig that was styled as a mullet.
What’s the biopic about?
The untitled biopic is directed by David Michod, who co-wrote the script with Mirrah Foulkes. The story follows Martin’s rise to turning into one of many largest feminine boxers within the ‘90s.
Martin made her boxing debut in 1989 and married Jim Martin who was additionally her supervisor. Jim Martin was 25 years older than Christy Martin and abusive all through their marriage. In 2010, he stabbed her and shot her within the chest. He’s at present serving a 25-year jail sentence.
Martin is the one girl boxer to ever seem on the duvet of Sports activities Illustrated, she’s the primary to signal with famed promoter Don King, the primary feminine inducted into the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame and she or he earned the World Boxing feminine tremendous welterweight title in 2009. She boxed till 2012.
Sweeney and Martin not too long ago reunited in New York for the Parade of Champions on June 8.
How Did Sydney Sweeney prepare to play Christy Martin?
In October 2024, Sweeney shared images of her transformation on Instagram, displaying off her toned and buff arms.
“Over the previous few months, i’ve been immersed in coaching to convey to life the story of an unbelievable girl,” she wrote, partly, alongside snaps of her in character.
The actor later shared footage of her boxing exercise routine within the fitness center following a montage of damaging feedback about her look. Begin TODAY coach Stephanie Mansour beforehand famous that the strikes Sweeney was performing within the fast video are higher physique boxing strikes which work the shoulders, biceps, again and core.
In keeping with her W Journal interview, Sweeney later needed to drop the load in seven weeks for her subsequent undertaking. Whereas it didn’t go into element about how she shed the kilos, the actor did share that she’s at all times liked sports activities.
“I really like being exterior. I used to be on the ski group, and I wakeboarded. I slalom ski on water. I used to be on the soccer group and the softball group. After which my mother and father received me into grappling, which is like wrestling, and kickboxing,” she stated. “I used to be the one woman on the dojo. I educated there from 13 till about 19. I fought all guys. I appreciated to assume that if s— went down, I would be capable of step up.”