Sydney Sweeney, known for her breakout role in Euphoria and her turn in films like Anyone But You and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is now taking on a role unlike anything we’ve ever seen from her before. She’ll be channeling boxer Christy Martin and pulling out the big gloves in the upcoming movie Christy. Sweeney pushed through intense fight training for the forthcoming flick, and she got real about one of the toughest scenes she filmed. Also, unsurprisingly, ice packs were involved.
Someone may be tempted to think that filming a boxing movie would involve staged punches and choreographed jabs that only look real on the big screen. However, the mind-blowing comments that Sydney Sweeney shared with Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival counter that aforementioned notion:
