Sydney Sweeney reveals 'transformation' for 'special' new role

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Sydney Sweeney has revealed she had to gain more than two stone to play boxer Christy Martin.
The Euphoria actor is playing the former female super welterweight champion in a new biopic. She had to train for hours every day and worked with a nutritionist who helped her pack on the extra pounds for the part.
"It was quite a transformation," she said during an appearance on The One Show.
Sweeney was on the BBC show on Monday, 9 June along with actor Julianne Moore, as the pair discussed their new film Echo Valley.
She was also quizzed about playing Martin in the as yet untitled biopic, and said it would "forever be one of the most special projects that I have ever done".
"I trained for like, two-and-a-half, three months before I started filming," she continued. "I had boxing training and weight training multiple times a day for hours a day. I had a nutritionist that would help me put on the weight. So I put on 30 to 35 pounds.
"It was incredible."
The star said during filming she "did every single boxing sequence". "It was me, I was punching people, I was getting punched in the face," she said. "It was really amazing."
Presenter Roman Kemp joked: "I'd be like, 'Go lighter this scene'."
But Sweeney insisted: "No, you want to keep getting into it! You get so into it."
Sweeney and Moore also talked about Echo Valley, which looks at how far a mum will go to protect her daughter after she turns up at her door covered in someone else's blood.
Moore had to film some of the scenes underwater in a tank and presenter Alex Jones noted that it looked "terrifying".
"Yeah," agreed Moore. She went on: "We shot the movie in New Jersey on an actual lake so when you see us on the surface of the lake or in a boat on the lake we are in New Jersey but when you see me underwater we are in London, we are in Pinewood."
"It was the first time I had done any tank work," said the actor. "It was really exciting, I got to work with a diver.
"You don't have a lot of prep. I think I had an afternoon of working with the regulator and going underwater and then you take your regulator and you take it out and then you act for as long as you can and then you come up for air.
"But it was exciting. I mean, I was nervous. I am not sporty, unlike Sydney who is a very, very sporty person. I am kind of an indoor person."
"I was very jealous of the tank work!" laughed Sweeney.
The One Show airs at 7pm on BBC One on weekdays.
Echo Valley is out on Apple TV+ and select cinemas from Friday, 13 June.