Overview

• Sweeney gained over 13 kg in three months with daily strength training and kickboxing sessions to inhabit Christy Martin’s physique.
• She used brown contact lenses and a wig to replicate Martin’s look and endured negative online comments about her altered body.
• Under director David Michôd, the film will chronicle Martin’s rise as a 1990s boxing trailblazer and her survival of an attempted murder by her husband.
• The actress has begun promoting the picture in interviews, detailing her physical transformation and emotional resonance with Martin’s story.
• After wrapping production, Sweeney faces a seven-week deadline to lose weight and return to her role in the series “Euphoria.”