“At the age of three I was already putting on plays for my grandparents at their house. I always liked to play, act, let my imagination fly. And when I realized that this was a real job, that was all I wanted to do,” said Sydney Sweeney (Spokane, Washington, 28 years old) in an interview published in 2023 in S Fashion. Then he had already stood out for his interpretations in e The Handmaid’s Tale The White Lotus and Euphoria, the series that launched her to fame, and she had embarked on a more independent and political project, realitya film by director Tina Sutter in which she played an intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret information about the 2016 presidential election won by Donald Trump. Critics praised that dramatic role and now, after a summer of controversy — in which it was revealed that she is a registered voter for the Republican Party and has starred in a viral advertising campaign for jeans that was criticized for being “racist” when talking about genes and jeans— the performer returns with a drama, Christya film in which she plays the American professional boxer Christy Martin and which she presented this Friday at the BFI London Film Festival.
To embody the athlete, Sweeney underwent a physical transformation: she had to gain muscle and weight, she said goodbye to her characteristic blonde hair and learned to defend herself in the ring. “I love transforming myself to play characters,” he explained during an interview with the film’s team. Los Angeles Times, “I trained for two months, I built a gym at home, I had a boxing coach and a strength coach, a nutritionist… I exercised every day.” He biopic — which will be released in November and in which Sweeney is listed as a producer — chronicles Martin’s rise in the 1990s, when she became a star boxer, and explores the athlete’s relationship with her husband, manager and trainer, Jim Martin, a dominant figure who managed her career and tried to murder her in 2010. Seven years later, Christy, who has advised During the filming of the film, Sweeney married fellow boxer Lisa Holewyne. The film premiered in September at the Toronto Film Festival and has now arrived at the London Film Festival, on whose red carpet Sweeney posed with a lingerie model, very far from the dressing method that many performers have been practicing lately in the presentations of their projects, from Zendaya with Dune and Thimothée Chalamet with A complete stranger to the protagonists of Wicked during his promotion.
The pale pink satin corset dress with whales marking her silhouette and lace that Sweeney wore during the presentation in London of her new project brought to the red carpet one of the trends of recent fashion weeks, that of lingerie garments that come out of the boudoir to take to the streets. This is not something new: in the nineties, corsets, bras, girdles, garter belts and nightgowns became popular thanks to figures such as Madonna or Courtney Love. The latter elevated the nightgown and petticoats to the category of evening dresses. grunge and Madonna, on her tour Blond Ambition Tour, collaborated with Jean Paul Gaultier to create a wardrobe that was elevated to iconic status in which bodysuits-Satin sashes overlapped other garments and sculpted the singer’s figure on stage. The model that Sweeney wore in London takes the palette of those bodies, but without her emblematic cone breasts, which in the dress created for her by the British brand McQueen are transformed into a satin strapless neckline superimposed on Victorian-inspired lace, one of the emblems of the house founded by the late Alexander McQueen.
Seán McGirr, creative director of McQueen since 2023, is responsible for this model, which deviates from Sweeney’s usual outfits in his public appearances. As her stylist, Molly Dickson, explained in the US edition of Voguethe idea was to offer a different image than usual: “We wanted to take Sydney in a new direction, something different from the more romantic and princess silhouettes that she has tended to sport in the past. What I like most about her is that she is always open to experiment and evolve. This look I was looking to get her out of her zone a little. comfort”. There is still promotion to explore other stylistic registers and, in addition, the actress has a long list of projects on the horizon: from the highly anticipated premiere of the third season of Euphoria (with Rosalía in the cast) up to five other titles, including Scandalous! (film directed by Colman Domingo in which she will play Kim Novak) or The assistant, with Amanda Seyfried.
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