Christy's mom thinks she sounds crazy in trailer for new boxing biopic
Sydney Sweeney plays Christy Martin, a boxer forced to fight both in and out of the ring.
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Christy Martin’s mom is a real piece of work. “Oh, Christy. You sound crazy,” the character, played by Merritt Wever, tells her daughter when she begs for help dealing with her abusive trainer-turned-husband, Jim (Ben Foster), in the trailer for David Michôd’s Christy. While the Sydney Sweeney-led biopic chronicles the championship boxer’s rise through the ranks, it also spotlights the adversity she faced outside of the ring. “If you leave me, I’ll kill you,” Jim threatens as Christy reels from her mom’s doubt, right before the trailer cuts to an image of a pink gun in Martin’s drawer.
Pink, as the trailer establishes earlier, is Martin’s signature color. Her outlook on the sport was similarly rosy when she got her start. “I think I found my thing,” she says over a triumphant training montage set to Stevie Nicks’ “Edge Of Seventeen.” “I bet most people go their entire lives and they don’t even know what their thing is.” The music and tone change drastically, however, as she gets pummeled by an opponent and accused by her husband of “sneaking around” behind his back.
