Sydney Sweeney looks almost unrecognizable in costume as boxing champion Christy Martin.
The “Euphoria” star, who will be playing Martin in the upcoming biopic “Christy,” sported a brown mullet and a ferocious attitude in a snap shared by the Toronto Film Festival on July 21.
In the image, Sweeney stands in a boxing ring with an intense expression. She wears an all-white outfit with the expected accessories of a boxer — boxing gloves and a mouth guard.
Online, fans couldn’t get enough of her look.
“Oscar nomination coming!!!!” one person raved on Instagram.
Another said, “You’re gonna knock this one out 🥊 👏❤️.”
A third added, “Excited 🥊🥊.”
During a June interview with W Magazine, Sweeney revealed how she got ready for the role, saying she spent months training and gained more than 30 pounds in the process.
“My body was completely different,” she said.
“I loved it,” Sweeney added. “I came onboard to play Christy, and I had about three and a half months of training. I started eating. I weight-trained in the morning for an hour, kickboxed midday for about two hours, and then weight-trained again at night for an hour.”
Sweeney shared that she went up four sizes and “didn’t fit” into any of her clothes anymore.
“I’m usually a size 23 in jeans, and I was wearing a size 27. My boobs got bigger. And my butt got huge. It was crazy! I was like, Oh my God,” she said. “But it was amazing: I was so strong, like crazy strong.”
Writer and director David Michôd also spoke to W Magazine about Sweeney’s dedication.
“Sydney trained her butt off to play the part. The beauty of Sydney is that she turned up to work every day with her tail wagging, ready to go. No matter how tough it was, she was like a ray of sunshine,” he said.
Martin, 57, had an incredibly successful career as a boxer. She was undefeated for a decade and also became the first woman boxer to make the cover of Sports Illustrated.
While talking to the New York Times, she said she had “no road map” to success.
“I had no path,” she said. “I just kept fighting. I kept growing.”
Martin also said that boxing gave her a home and helped with her self-confidence.
“You can be aggressive, you can be strong, you can be all those things,” she said. “That’s where I could be me.”
