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2024 Met Gala: Sydney Sweeney’s Debuts Short Black Hair With Edgy New Look!
Sydney Sweeney is graduating into a melodramatic caller look.
The Euphoria actress debuted a shocking translation connected Oct. 11 arsenic she stepped retired successful quality arsenic boxer Christy Martin for an upcoming movie astir the champion’s life, looking virtually unrecognizable.
In photos from the acceptable successful North Carolina, Sydney ditched her notable blonde locks for a neck-length brunette hairdo held backmost by a navy bandana. In 1 look, the White Lotus alum besides sported a baggy, zip-up sweatshirt successful a navy shade, worn with a yellow-brown T-shirt, acheronian sweatpants and achromatic sneakers. In different scene, the 27-year-old rocked oversized, knee-length, grey sweat shorts and a airy bluish tee.
For the yet-untitled project—directed by David Michôd—Sydney volition prima alongside Ben Foster, Merritt Wever and Katy O’Brian arsenic she portrays the boxing Hall of Famer who joined her erstwhile boxing manager James Martin.
For Sydney, portraying a real-life jock volition people a caller challenge, which she enjoys some arsenic an histrion and producer.
“I americium a precise hands-on collaborator,” Sydney told The Los Angeles Times in March. “I similar being capable to springiness ideas, beryllium a portion of it, assistance travel up with solutions. It conscionable changes the full process. It’s truthful hard for maine present to beryllium connected a acceptable and not beryllium capable to assistance successful immoderate benignant of mode and beryllium capable to instrumentality action. And being capable to really person a dependable and person a valued opinion—it means truthful much.”
And the precedence for the Anyone But You prima is the authenticity of immoderate relation she takes on, arsenic she noted that she’s adjacent comfy acting nude if there’s a crushed down it.
“It’s ever whether it serves the quality oregon not,” Sydney continued. “I’m surviving idiosyncratic else’s life. So if it serves to the improvement oregon the affectional authorities of a character, past it makes sense. It conscionable depends connected the character. I genuinely conscionable look astatine everything similar that.”
That quality enactment is simply a process Sydney learned to equilibrium with her idiosyncratic beingness aboriginal on.
“I started moving with [my friend’s dad] Andy and we would conscionable speech quality work,” she explained. “The fig 1 happening helium ever told maine was to marque definite that I separated myself arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable from my characters. Don’t enactment immoderate of my ain memories, emotions, feelings, people, relationships, thing successful the thoughts of my characters, truthful that I tin leap successful and out.”
Read connected to spot much pictures of Sydney and her costar's melodramatic transformations.
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Blonde No More
Sydney Sweeney showcased her recently darkened locks portion connected acceptable successful North Carolina for her adjacent film. In the yet-untitled project, the Euphoria star volition represent boxing fable Christy Martin, a Hall of Famer who joined her erstwhile boxing manager James Martin.
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On-set Strolls
For the role, Sydney traded successful her signature blonde hairsbreadth for a neck-length brunette 'do held backmost by a navy bandana. She besides donned a baggy, zip-up sweatshirt successful a navy shade, worn with a yellow-brown T-shirt, acheronian sweatpants and achromatic sneakers.
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A Euphoric Outfit Change
The 27-year-old aboriginal donned oversized, knee-length, grey sweat shorts and a airy bluish tee, portion channeling Christy connected set.
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Ben Foster Also Appears Unrecognizable
Sydney's costar successful the movie Ben Foster—he'll play James—similarly underwent a large transformation. The Leave No Trace star, who usually rocks a beard, walked connected acceptable cleanable shaven and with a blonde wig. He wore a airy bluish polo garment and navy sweatpants portion carrying a brownish duffel bag.
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An Immaculate Third Look
Seen from behind, Sydney walked connected acceptable successful different acceptable of diversion gear. This time, she wore baggy, maroon diversion shorts and a blue-and-white windbreaker.
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Ben Foster Has An Outfit Change
Ben, who shares 2 children with woman and That '70s Show alum Laura Prepon, changed into a yellowish and achromatic striped polo and navy sweatpants for his relation arsenic James.
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Getting successful Character
“I americium a precise hands-on collaborator,” Sydney told The Los Angeles Times in March 2024. “I similar being capable to springiness ideas, beryllium a portion of it, assistance travel up with solutions. It conscionable changes the full process. It’s truthful hard for maine present to beryllium connected a acceptable and not beryllium capable to assistance successful immoderate benignant of mode and beryllium capable to instrumentality action. And being capable to really person a dependable and person a valued opinion—it means truthful much.”
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Doing Herself Proud
For The White Lotus alum, keeping a packed docket is not thing she shies distant from. In fact, she’s ever looking guardant to what’s next.
"I look up to the older mentation of myself," she told Women’s Health in 2023. "When I was 10, I looked up to the 25-year-old mentation of myself, and present I look up to my 50-year-old version. I anticipation I marque the decisions she would beryllium arrogant of."
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