This is interesting!
In SS's next film role (Christy) she will play professional boxer Christy Martin....
>>"Sydney Sweeney will arrive at the Toronto International Film Festival, making her first major public appearance since the controversy surrounding American Eagle. She hasn’t spoken about the divisive ads yet—and tells Vanity Fair that she doesn’t plan to start now.
“I am there to support my movie and the people involved in making it, and I’m not there to talk about jeans,” she says. “The movie’s about Christy, and that’s what I’ll be there to talk about.”
That would be Christy Martin, a groundbreaking professional boxer who rose to prominence in the ’90s. The Euphoria star plays Martin, nicknamed “the Coal Miner’s Daughter,” in Christy, which tracks the athlete from her humble beginnings in West Virginia to her ascent as the biggest star female boxer in the world. “I was blown away that her story wasn’t more known on a universal, global level because it’s just one of the most harrowing and inspiring women that I’ve ever met in my entire life,” Sweeney tells Vanity Fair exclusively.
For this career-best performance, Sweeney underwent an intense physical transformation, gaining more than 30 pounds and weathering concussions during her months-long training. She also delivers a knock-out emotional performance as the story takes an unexpected turn after Martin’s relationship with her husband turns violent.
Directed by David Michôd, Christy is more than a boxing story—it’s a tale of survival. “One of the things that drew me to this story was the idea of being able to make a movie that starts, in a way, as a beautiful, wild, underdog sports movie,” says Michôd, “but then starts to shift into something that’s really harrowing and, ultimately, deeply moving.”<<
Looking forward to seeing it!!