People often discuss which Hollywood star might play them in a movie about their life. For legendary boxer Christy Martin, the actor turned out to be Sydney Sweeney. Sweeney transformed into “Christy,” which hits theaters on Nov. 7. 

Before Martin’s story was told on the big screen, she sat down with “48 Hours” in 2020 to share her story. An encore of “Christy Martin – the Fight of her Life” airs Saturday, Nov. 8, at 9/8c on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

Raised as a coal miner’s daughter in a small town in West Virginia, to becoming a world championship boxer, Martin made headlines as a pioneer in women’s boxing. But few knew of the personal battles she was facing outside the ring.

In the episode, “48 Hours” details the story of Martin’s struggles with identity, acceptance, drug addiction, and domestic violence at the hands of her former husband and trainer, Jim Martin. “The same story that you guys got, Sydney puts out there for the people to see and to gain inspiration from,” Martin recently told “48 Hours.”   

Sweeney spent months preparing for the role, including intense boxing training to recreate Martin’s actual fights. In addition to physical preparations, Sweeney told “48 Hours” about the research she did to play Christy. “I mean, I had a lot to be able to pull from and go off of. She had her book, there was the ’48 Hours’ special … There were interviews and fight footage. So there was a lot I could prepare with before I met Christy, and then I had Christy in my corner, so I was able to ask her questions and have her by my side and be able to watch her.”

Martin requested the writers not to “Hollywoodize” her life as they scripted her story. Martin said writer Mirrah Foulkes responded, “There’s enough crazy s*** that’s happened in your life, we don’t have to.”

As her survival story continues to reach more people, Martin hopes it can help inspire others. “We’re showing a pathway to get out of a domestic violence situation. We’re showing how important it is for parents, relatives, friends to be accepting of someone who’s a little different … But I’m the ultimate underdog … If you can believe it, you can achieve it. Dream big. My Dad used to tell me to dream big, and I think I did.” 

If you or someone you know needs help, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 [SAFE]. 

Jacob Elordi has blasted viewers’ “prudish” reaction to the Saltburn bathtub scene.

The scene sees Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) drink bathwater after he secretly watched Felix Catton (Elordi) touch himself in the tub.

This scene got people talking and left quite a many flabbergasted.

Appearing on Entertainment Weekly‘s Awardist podcast, Elordi said: “I actually think it shows me just how, I guess, prudish we are.”

“When I watch that, I just think there’s far more extreme things in cinema that I’ve seen, far more graphic,” the 28-year-old compared.

The star – who has witnessed “more alarming” moments in films – cannot understand why viewers do not have the same reaction when it comes to scenes packed with distressing violence.

Elordi added: “There’s more alarming things in the top 10 streamed remakes of crime documentaries on every streaming platform.”

“I think that’s much more alarming, the kind of horrible joy that we all get from watching children be mutilated. That’s what was interesting to me,” the Euphoria star said.

“I was like, ‘Here’s a piece of fiction with something just a little taboo,’ and that makes people’s skin crawl. It’s an interesting parallel,” he further mentioned.

Saltburn – which is about Oxford student Oliver becoming obsessed with his rich-and-aristocratic classmate Felix – was directed by Emerald Fennell.

Speaking about the bathtub scene in 2023, Fennell told Entertainment Weekly: “The bathtub was the first thing, the first image, that came to me.”

“It was a boy saying, ‘I wasn’t in love with him,’ and that same boy licking the bottom of a bathtub. So that was the very centre of the film for me, this kind of unreliable narrator, somebody who was clearly in the grips of extreme desire and who hasn’t yet come to terms with it or who has had to find another way of coming to terms with it or explain it,” she concluded.

Gene Simmons has a sweet tooth!

The KISS rocker opened up about his obsession with “cookies, chocolates, cake” but h has had to limit its consumption after decades of eating whatever he loved.

“When I’m on tour, it doesn’t matter,” he told Men’s Health Magazine.

“I’d eat cheesecake every day because I’m wearing 40 lb. of armour, 7-inch platform heels… You don’t have to do anything. Within two hours you will be exhausted. The amount of calories burned on stage, it’s like a heavy workout. So, I could eat anything,” the rock star said.

Gene also revealed he could take or leave even the fanciest savoury foods, but struggled to resist sweets of all kinds.

“I don’t really care if it’s pasta or shmasta, or foie gras and anything with a French name…I really don’t care,” he said.

The Forever rocker added, “I love cake. Cookies, chocolates, cake. It’s about as much fun as I can have with my pants on.”

However, Gene admitted, an ageing metabolism meant he could no longer eat sweets as often or as extravagantly as he used to.

“I’ve got to watch it. You know, my girlish figure and everything,” he said quirkily.

“And the older I get… I’m 76 now. The problem is your metabolism, it slows down like a tick-tock of an old clock. So, at 76, I can’t have as much as I like,” the Detroit Rock City hitmaker mentioned.