The Housemaid, Sydney and Sweeney
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Sydney Sweeney was out enjoying a pool while promoting The Housemaid, her first movie since playing boxer Christy Martin.
As of Dec. 9, Christy is available to purchase or rent on digital video-on-demand platforms. You can buy the movie for your digital library and watch it whenever you want or rent it for 30 days. Just note that you'll only have 48 hours to finish watching the rental once you begin.
Sydney Sweeney's physical transformation for the role is nothing short of remarkable. Gaining 35 pounds, wearing brown contact lenses, and sporting various mullet-style wigs from the late '80s and early '90s,
The role required multiple scenes of tough boxing bouts. Michôd (writer-director of The King, starring Timothee Chalamet, and Australian classic Animal Kingdom) was convinced by her previous roles that Sweeney had the necessary skill as an actor, but had to wait to see her perform in the ring.
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Sydney Sweeney transformed herself to play Christy Martin in a biopic as Hollywood struggles
Sydney Sweeney changed a lot about herself to play Christy Martin in a biopic about the boxer. She says it was a role she had to take.
Sydney Sweeney and boxing legend Christy Martin have graced the cover of Sports Illustrated together. The image at New York's Trinity Boxing Club shows Sweeney seated on a red sto