Team GB Olympic gold medallist lands surprise Hollywood debut

Former Olympic and satellite boxing champion boxer Nicola Adams is acceptable to marque her Hollywood debut.

The Leeds combatant volition diagnostic successful upcoming enactment thriller The Gun connected Second Street alongside Poppy Delevingne, Tom Arnold, and Rumer Willis, Deadline report.

While her relation is presently being kept nether wraps, Adams has been plotting a determination into acting since hanging up her gloves successful 2019, studying astatine the Identity School of Acting (IDSA) successful London wherever John Boyega, Damson Idris and Letitia Wright are among the alumni.

‘I’m thrilled to instrumentality connected this caller situation and bring my warring tone to the large screen,’ Adams said. ‘Boxing taught maine discipline, focus, and determination—skills I’m excited to use to my acting career.’

The film’s producers added: ‘Nicola’s unthinkable achievements successful athletics and her magnetic property marque her a earthy acceptable for this role.’

The Gun connected Second Street focuses connected the travel of a Pittsburgh constabulary serviceman who accidentally shoots and kills his spouse during a home unit call, the study claims.

The movie is presently successful the post-production stage.

Adams won Olympic golden astatine London 2012, making past 4 years aboriginal erstwhile she repeated that occurrence successful Rio de Janeiro, becoming the archetypal pistillate combatant successful past to triumph back-to-back golds.

Six months later, Adams turned implicit to boxing’s nonrecreational ranks, signing with legendary promoter Frank Warren.

She reeled disconnected wins successful her archetypal 4 fights earlier picking up the WBO interim flyweight rubric successful October 2018, upgraded to afloat satellite champion the pursuing year.

In her archetypal defence of her satellite rubric against Maria Salinas, Adams suffered a torn pupil successful the opening round.

While she fought done the combat to unafraid a draw, she announced helium status the pursuing period with immoderate further harm to her oculus posing the hazard of imperishable imaginativeness loss.

Adams has antecedently discussed her dreams of making her people successful the satellite of acting with her imagination to go the adjacent Marvel superstar.

‘One of the things that I truly privation to bash successful my acting vocation is to beryllium successful a Marvel movie, go a superhero oregon a villain’ she told Olympics.com past year.

‘That’s my extremity truthful that’s what I visualise, the adjacent superhero oregon the adjacent villain,” Adams said. “I don’t caput if I’m the atrocious feline oregon a bully feline due to the fact that each superhero needs a truly bully villain to marque them look good.’

She told Metro successful 2021: I’d emotion to enactment successful movies, that’s the main goal. I’d emotion to enactment with The Rock — he’s awesome.

Adams follows different erstwhile satellite champion boxer into acting successful Kali Reis. The two-weight satellite champion made her acting debut successful Catch the Fair One successful 2021 earlier going onto prima successful the 4th play of True Detective alongside Jodie Foster.