For her starring role in the female boxing drama “Christy,” Sydney Sweeney kept an ice bucket handy.

“I was getting pummeled,” Sweeney said during an interview at the Variety Toronto Film Festival Studio. “They were holding ice packs to my face in between takes. I was getting knocked up. I had some gnarly bruises after that.” One particular scene in which she recreated the famous fight between the film’s real-life inspiration, trailblazing boxing champ Christy Martin, and Laila Ali left her with a “crazy black eye.”

The “Anyone but You” star filmed all of the film’s boxing sequences “back to back to back” over the course of a single week while continuing to train in the off hours. “I’d wrap after a 12-hour shoot and then I’d go train for another two hours. That whole week was g

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