During a recent interview, Sydney Sweeney revealed the process of gaining weight for her role in Christy, the 2025 sports drama, in which she played the role of former professional boxer Christy Martin. She spoke about her diet and the level of discipline she had to follow to get to her target weight. Sweeney also sat down with Martin herself, discussing the role in detail.
Sydney Sweeney reveals her weight gain process for Christy
During an interview with Sports Illustrated, Sydney Sweeney opened up about her journey working on Christy, and the level of discipline it took her to get in shape for the role.
In a clip posted on X by the outlet, Sweeney explains in detail her process of gaining weight for the film. “To get to 35 pounds was really hard,” the Euphoria actress shared. “Especially once the boxing element came into full force, cause then I was burning a lot of calories at that time,” she added.
Speaking of her diet, Sweeney went on to explain, “I only drink water, and I started drinking milkshakes, and I really enjoyed them. I was eating like three burgers for one meal, downing protein shakes and snacking constantly.” Expressing that it was also fun, she laughingly remarked, “I think it was probably some of the happiest times of my life.”
As she also stepped into the ring with Christy Martin, discussing professional boxing and the film among other things, Sweeney revealed how she lost weight after filming for the role of Christy. She read a question from a card that asked about what the process of losing weight was like.
Sweeney responded saying, “I had like seven weeks in between wrapping Christy and starting Housemaid and Euphoria. So I had to be pretty strict with myself.” Further she explained, “The moment I stopped going to the gym, and I stopped taking the protein shakes and the creatine, I dropped a lot quickly. And then I had to be really strict.”
