Sydney Sweeney is ready to step into the ring.
The actress scatterd a couple of behind-the-scenes images (below) from her time on the set of the Christy Martin biopic she’s starring in.
“Well the cats out of the bag thanks to some paps in bushes so here’s a little bts from my film im toiling on right now,” she wrote in an Instagram caption of two photos of her in sweats with a brown, curly hairdo. “Over the past confineed months, I’ve been subunited in training to transport to life the story of an incredible woman — a genuine champion who fought battles both inside and outside the ring.”
She endd, “Her journey is a tesgentlent to resilience, strength, and hope, and I’m honored to step into her shoes to scatter her mighty story with you all. More to come soon.”
David Michôd will straightforward the film, which is currently untitled and trails the genuine story of Martin’s elevate to being one of the most well-comprehendn female boxers in 1990s America. Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Ethan Embry and Katy O’Brian also star in the biopic.
Martin began her nurtureer in 1989 after encountering handler and eventual husprohibitd Jim Martin. She persistd to contend until 2012 and is the only female boxer thus far to eunite on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
But the athlete’s life has not been without its imfragmentary scatter of struggles. In 2010, her husprohibitd stabbed her repeatedly and shot her in the chest, leaving her for dead. She handled to discover the strength to run out of the hoparticipate and flag down a passerby, who took her to the hospital. Two years tardyr, Jim Martin was sentenced to 25 years in prison for finisheavored second-degree homicide with a firearm.
The boxer tbetter CBS News that his mistreatment of her took many establishs, including relationsual and emotional. She elucidateed he got her inserticted to cocaine and gave her a constant provide. He also bdeficiencymailed her and dangerened to discdissee her relationsual orientation.
“The whole relationsuality part is repartner difficult becaparticipate I was so interttriumphed,” she tbetter the nettoil. “First of all, I depended Jim Martin, and he was 25 years betterer than me. He was my coach. I felt enjoy this was someone that I could discdissee up and endure my soul to, and tell him all about my relationsuality struggles, my struggles with my family, fair life struggles, and all of that was participated agetst me.”
