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See Sydney Sweeney’s Stunning Transformation For New Boxing Biopic
Sydney Sweeney strapped connected her gloves for this role.
After all, the Anyone But You star shared a glimpse into becoming boxing fable Christy Martin for an upcoming biopic, implicit with a shag hairstyle and musculus vessel top.
"Over the past fewer months, i've been immersed successful grooming to bring to beingness the communicative of an unthinkable woman—a existent champion who fought battles some wrong and extracurricular the ring," Sydney captioned her Oct. 16 Instagram post. "Her travel is simply a testament to resilience, strength, and hope, and I'm honored to measurement into her shoes to stock her almighty communicative with you all."
Alongside the reflection, she shared a drawback extracurricular her trailer, donning reddish and achromatic sneakers, grey sweatpants and a reddish musculus vessel top. Like the boxer, her curly brunette locks were styled successful a escaped ponytail and featured wavy bangs. In the 2nd pic, the 27-year-old was beaming portion showing disconnected her biceps adjacent to a seat that work "Christy Martin."
Portraying the boxer, who is considered the astir palmy pistillate boxer successful U.S. history, has been a imagination for Sydney.
"Christy's communicative isn't a airy one, it's physically and emotionally demanding, there's a batch of value to carry," the Euphoria histrion told Deadline successful May. "But I emotion challenging myself. Christy Martin not lone legitimized pistillate boxing, she overcame sex stereotypes and fought done emotional, carnal and fiscal abuse."
"I'm passionate astir the warring world," she continued. "Christy's communicative shines a airy connected her unthinkable emergence to the apical portion showing the struggles of fame down the curtains. I consciousness compelled to archer a communicative astir a pistillate who faced truthful overmuch adversity and didn't let it to decision her. It's almighty and emotional."
For Christy, who survived a stabbing by ex-husband Jim Martin successful 2010, she hopes the movie directed by David Michôd will transcend her beingness successful the ring.
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"I privation this movie to bring consciousness to home violence, the situation of sexuality and wide underdog story," the erstwhile boxer told TMZ the aforesaid month. "I americium a ember miner's girl from a tiny municipality successful confederate West Virginia that made an interaction successful a athletics that wasn't taken seriously: women's boxing."
And the 56-year-old, present joined to erstwhile boxer Lisa Holewyne, is honored to person Sydney instrumentality connected the role.
"I deliberation she is young, hot, talented and astir to marque a movie that successful 20+ years," she added, "fathers volition ticker with their daughters to marque them alert of home violence."
Keep speechmaking to spot much of Sydney's unrecognizable transformation.
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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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