Amy Schumer to try for a dramatic turn with boxing movie Christy Martin
Funny person Amy Schumer is in talks for a role that sounds decidedly unfunny, with Deadline reporting that she might star in Katherine Fugate’s Christy Martin—a movie about the groundbreaking boxer of the same name. Deadline describes the movie as a “gritty drama” about “a woman who never gives up and who keeps going despite every odd against her,” which doesn’t sound too far outside of Schumer’s wheelhouse, but the specific details of Martin’s life ramp up the drama considerably.
