Who is Christy Martin? Boxing champ Sydney Sweeney plays in new film

Sydney Sweeney has revealed connected Instagram that she volition prima arsenic nonrecreational boxer Christy Martin successful her adjacent movie role.

The 27-year-old histrion – who roseate to prominence starring successful Euphoria and past year’s romcom Anyone But You – shared the news, alongside behind-the-scenes images of her carnal translation with her 22 cardinal Instagram followers connected Wednesday. Appearing astir unrecognisable with a abbreviated brunette haircut, Sweeney tin beryllium seen flexing her awesome biceps successful the images.

“Well the cats retired of the container acknowledgment to immoderate paps successful bushes truthful here’s a small bts from my movie im moving connected close now,” the histrion wrote. “Over the past fewer months, i’ve been immersed successful grooming to bring to beingness the communicative of an unthinkable pistillate - a existent champion who fought battles some wrong and extracurricular the ring.”

“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.”

Martin has been hailed arsenic 1 of the astir salient pistillate boxers successful the United States. She began her vocation successful the precocious 80s and went connected to go the archetypal pistillate signed by historical boxing promoter Don King, and besides became the archetypal pistillate boxer to look connected the beforehand screen of Sports Illustrated. In 1 of her astir celebrated matches, she took connected Irishwoman Deirdre Gogarty successful a 1996 combat which is said to person enactment pistillate boxing connected the map.

While her boxing vocation was a success, Martin was suffering successful her idiosyncratic beingness astatine the hands of her abusive ex-husband (and trainer) Jim Martin. After stabbing and shooting his wife, successful 2012, helium was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment for attempted second-degree execution and manslaughter.

Now a boxing promoter, Martin has joined chap erstwhile boxer Lisa Holewyne and, successful 2020, was elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Directed by David Michôd, the untitled biopic volition travel Martin’s emergence to fame, vocation occurrence and the idiosyncratic demons she faced astatine the hands of her ex-husband. “I person a past of making movies astir damaged men and I’d been wanting to marque a movie astir a pistillate with a ferocious vigor wrong her,” the manager told Deadline.

“When I came crossed the Christy Martin communicative 2 years ago, I knew I’d recovered it. Her ferocity is intelligible and justifiable, and audiences volition crave it due to the fact that of the circumstances she was forced to endure.”

Sweeney told the publication: “Christy’s communicative isn’t a airy one, it’s physically and emotionally demanding, there’s a batch of value to carry. But I emotion challenging myself.

“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.”

Speaking with TMZ, Martin said of Sweeney’s casting: “I deliberation she is young, hot, talented and astir to marque a movie that, successful 20-plus years, fathers volition ticker with their daughters to marque them alert of domestic violence.”

A merchandise day for the movie is yet to beryllium announced although, arsenic the movie is successful production, it’s expected to beryllium released adjacent year.