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If you heard the beats of professional boxer Christy Martin’s story, you might think it has the goods for a film adaptation—and you’d be right. Hailing from West Virginia, “the Coal Miner’s Daughter” made a splash on the 1990s boxing scene as one of its most decorated fighters, all while juggling her closeted homosexuality and an abusive marriage that nearly killed her. Now her life is being immortalized on-screen in Christy , a biopic starring Sydney Sweeney as the titular boxer. The film, now in theaters, promises to tell her story almost exactly as it happened.

Sweeney teamed up with director David Michôd and co-writer Mirrah Foulkes to bring Martin’s story to the masses—something Martin was initially skeptical about. “She had this idea that we were going to

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