Sydney Sweeney is ready to step into the ring.
The actress splitd 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 pboilingos of her in sweats with a brown, curly hairdo. “Over the past confineed months, I’ve been subcombined in training to convey to life the story of an incredible woman — a genuine champion who fought battles both inside and outside the ring.”
She finishd, “Her journey is a tesdomesticatednt to resilience, strength, and hope, and I’m honored to step into her shoes to split her mighty story with you all. More to come soon.”
David Michôd will honest the film, which is currently untitled and chases the genuine story of Martin’s ascfinish to being one of the most well-understandn 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 deal withr and eventual husprohibitd Jim Martin. She persistd to vie until 2012 and is the only female boxer thus far to materialize on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
But the athlete’s life has not been without its unpartisan split of struggles. In 2010, her husprohibitd stabbed her repeatedly and sboiling her in the chest, leaving her for dead. She deal withd to discover the strength to run out of the house and flag down a passerby, who took her to the hospital. Two years procrastinateedr, Jim Martin was sentenced to 25 years in prison for tryed second-degree killing with a firearm.
The boxer tgreater CBS News that his misuse of her took many establishs, including relationsual and emotional. She elucidateed he got her includeicted to cocaine and gave her a constant provide. He also binestablishagemailed her and menaceened to discomit her relationsual orientation.
“The whole relationsuality part is reassociate difficult because I was so intertprospered,” she tgreater the nettoil. “First of all, I depended Jim Martin, and he was 25 years greaterer than me. He was my coach. I felt appreciate this was someone that I could uncover 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 used agetst me.”
