Sydney Sweeney has lined up her subsequent function as groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin in a brand new biopic.
Australian filmmaker David Michôd, finest recognized for his movies Animal Kingdom and The King, will direct from a script co-written with Mirrah Foulkes.
The film will chart Martin’s rise to probably the most acknowledged feminine boxer within the Nineteen Nineties, from assembly her supervisor and future husband Jim Martin to turning into the primary lady to signal with star-making promoter Don King. Dubbed the “feminine Rocky” by the movie’s producers, Martin stays the one feminine boxer to land a Sports activities Illustrated cowl.
In an interview with Deadline, Michôd mentioned, “The movie is about Christy as a younger homosexual lady in small city Virginia within the Nineteen Nineties. She got here from a comparatively conservative household and wasn’t allowed to be who she was so she used boxing as a car to precise herself and her rage. She needed to make some harmful and basic compromises in her life, an important of which was marrying an extremely harmful man.”
Additionally chatting with Deadline, Sweeney revealed her ardour for boxing and MMA. “I grappled and did kickboxing from 12-19 years outdated. I’ve been itching to get again into the ring, practice, and remodel my physique,” she mentioned. “Christy’s story isn’t a light-weight one, it’s bodily and emotionally demanding, there’s a number of weight to hold. However I like difficult myself.”
The actor additionally praised Martin’s legacy, saying, “[She] not solely legitimized feminine boxing, she overcame gender stereotypes, and fought by way of emotional, bodily, and monetary abuse. I’m passionate in regards to the preventing world, Christy’s story shines a light-weight on her unbelievable rise to the highest whereas exhibiting the struggles of fame behind the curtains. I really feel compelled to inform a narrative a few lady who confronted a lot adversity and didn’t permit it to defeat her. It’s highly effective, and emotional.”
Sweeney is coming off the hit rom-com Anyone But You and horror flick Immaculate, the latter of which she promoted by hosting Saturday Night Live. Extra impressively, she achieved all this with only two hours of sleep and no coffee.
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