Boxing powerhouse Christy Martin is opening up about her initial reactions to seeing actor Ben Foster fully in character on the set of her biopic, Christy.

“I basically freaked out, and I told them, ‘Do not let that man near me,’” Martin, 57, shared during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly on Wednesday, November 5. “We were never in the same area during the entire shooting of the film.”

Martin recalled one day that she “walked out” while the cast was filming in an arena. “I could have gone out 30 doors. I walk out the door that Ben Foster is sitting outside of, and I immediately started cussing him out,” she recalled. “And then I realized that’s not Jim Martin. And you know, I had to reel myself back in, because I really, I don’t know, it was very intense.”

In Christy, which premier

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