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Ethan Hawke Says Rocky Spurred a Short-Lived Boxing Bid That Ended After One Fight

He recounted the six-month detour during a Variety/CNN Actors on Actors talk with Sydney Sweeney.

Overview

  • Hawke said the Rocky films inspired him to take boxing lessons, train for about six months, and enter a single bout.
  • He recalled being thoroughly outmatched in the fight and said the opponent’s punches had him hitting his own hands.
  • He quit the sport afterward because he did not like losing.
  • The remarks were made in a newly released Actors on Actors conversation with Sydney Sweeney on December 11.
  • Sweeney said she trained for roughly six months to play Christy Martin and disclosed she sustained a concussion during filming, while Hawke once portrayed an ex-boxer in a 1999 production of Camino Real.