Sydney Sweeney is taking a swing at a role that’s getting her a lot of award consideration as she transforms into boxer Christy Martin in her new film simply titled Christy. The first trailer for the biopic dropped on Thursday ahead of the film’s release into theaters on Nov. 7 In the film, Sweeney portrays Martin who never imagined life …
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Sydney Sweeney experiences highs and lows as boxer Christy Martin in the trailer for the forthcoming sports biopic movie Christy. Black Bear Pictures releases writer-director David Michôd’s feature in theaters Nov. 7 following its premiere last week at the Toronto International Film Festival. The cast includes Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O’Brian, Ethan Embry, Jess Gabor, Chad Coleman, Bryan Hibbard, …
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For her starring role in the female boxing drama “Christy,” Sydney Sweeney kept an ice bucket handy. “I was getting pummeled,” Sweeney said during an interview at the Variety Toronto Film Festival Studio. “They were holding ice packs to my face in between takes. I was getting knocked up. I had some gnarly bruises after that.” One particular scene in which she recreated …
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TORONTO (AP) — Sydney Sweeney came to the Toronto International Film Festival wanting to talk about her new film “Christy,” not her American Eagle ad campaign. After a rapturous response to the movie, she’s getting her wish. The 27-year-old, Emmy-nominated actor landed immediate Oscar buzz for her performance in David Michôd’s biopic of the boxer Christy Salters Martin. For the …
Read More »TORONTO (AP) — Sydney Sweeney came to the Toronto International Film Festival wanting to talk about her new film “Christy,” not her American Eagle ad campaign. After a rapturous response to the movie, she’s getting her wish. The 27-year-old, Emmy-nominated actor landed immediate Oscar buzz for her performance in David Michôd’s biopic of the boxer Christy Salters Martin. For the …
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A thin best actress Oscar race was jolted on Friday afternoon by the Toronto International Film Festival’s world premiere of David Michod’s Christy, a drama centering on a performance by Sydney Sweeney as the trailblazing female boxer Christy Martin, which was greeted with a prolonged standing ovation in the Princess of Wales Theater. Sweeney, who was also a producer of …
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Sydney Sweeney was on hand at the Toronto Film Festival for the Friday afternoon premiere of her highly anticipated drama Christy and shed some light on how she transformed into the film’s titular boxer. Sweeney told the festival crowd that she trained for two to three months with a boxing coach prior to filming to play real-life athlete Christy Martin. …
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Sydney Sweeney has the goods to punch her way into the Oscar race for “Christy.” The talented actress completely transforms in “Christy,” a bruising, emotionally charged biopic about groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin. Directed by Australian filmmaker David Michôd (“Animal Kingdom”), the film chronicles Martin’s rise as the most recognizable female boxer in the late 1980’s America, as well as the …
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The Toronto Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Christy, a new biopic from director David Michôd that stars Sydney Sweeney as legendary boxer Christy Martin and Ben Foster as her husband and coach Jim Martin. Guests on the red carpet Friday included Sweeney, Foster, Christy Martin, Katy O’Brian, Michôd, Chad L. Coleman, Jess Gabor, Marvin LaViolette, Shailene Woodley and …
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