{"id":148204,"date":"2025-09-11T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/sydney-sweeney-fights-for-the-title-in-boxing-biopic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:50:08","slug":"sydney-sweeney-fights-for-the-title-in-boxing-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/sydney-sweeney-fights-for-the-title-in-boxing-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Fights For the Title in Boxing Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBlack Bear has launched the trailer for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/christy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christy\" data-tag=\"christy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christy<\/a>,\u201d a brand new sports activities biopic starring <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sydney-sweeney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sydney-sweeney\" data-tag=\"sydney-sweeney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a> because the  International Boxing Hall of Fame icon Christy Martin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOther solid members embrace 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 movie with Mirrah Foulkes and Katherine Fugate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSweeney <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/sydney-sweeney-christy-30-pounds-bruises-boxing-scenes-1236510046\/\">advised <em>Variety<\/em><\/a> on the Toronto International Film Festival, the place \u201cChristy\u201d held its world premiere, that she packed on 30 kilos to embody the function of the world-class fighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI had a nutritionist work with me as well as a weight trainer and a boxing trainer,\u201d Sweeney defined, \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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Variety<\/em> movie critic Owen Gleiberman was very eager on the movie. In his <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/reviews\/christy-review-sydney-sweeney-1236509755\/\">enthusiastic evaluation<\/a>, he praised Sweeney for her \u201ctrue-note, game-changing knockout of a performance.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tExecutive producers embrace 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 function producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cChristy\u201d involves theaters Nov. 7. Check out the trailer under.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hSHwFDPfeV8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christy | Official Trailer | In Theaters November 7\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSHwFDPfeV8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Black Bear has launched the trailer for \u201cChristy,\u201d a brand new sports activities biopic starring Sydney Sweeney because the International Boxing Hall of Fame icon Christy Martin. Other solid members embrace 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 movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2511,6540,4035,319,318,3200],"class_list":{"0":"post-148204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-biopic","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-fights","11":"tag-sweeney","12":"tag-sydney","13":"tag-title"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}