Sydney Sweeney is handling fame ‘incredibly well,’ says Ben Foster

 Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney, who plays real life boxer Christy Martin in the new sports drama “Christy”, is “handling” her fame “incredibly well”, according to her co-star Ben Foster, who essays James V. Martin, Christy’s coach-turned-husband in the film.

Foster told The Independent newspaper: “Sydney is her own force. She came in extremely prepared, knew the crew’s names, was always ready to work. I’d be knackered at the end of the day, and she’d go train for another three hours to fight the next morning ...” 

“(She) is in a zeitgeist worldview that is ... unique. And I think she’s handling it incredibly well. She’s a powerhouse.” 

Foster went on to admit he’s also impressed by Sydney’s use of social media in her career, adding: “I’m not on any social media at all, reports femalefirst.co.uk. 

“And have never been. I think (my representatives) know me better than to push me into that. But she plays in that field. It’s so important to this generation, to the future. I find her incredibly impressive.” It comes after the actress recently said she struggles to ask for help at times because she doesn’t want to be viewed as “weak” revealing her real life experiences helped her relate to her character in Christy.

She told Sky News: “I have a really hard time with asking for help and my friends recently have really pointed that out to me, and they’re like: ‘Sydney, it’s okay to ask. Like, you can’. There’s nothing wrong with it, but I have really a hard time with it.” 

She continued: “I think it’s hard, especially as a woman, there’s so many expectations on us to have it all together. “And if we do ask for help, then it’s a sign of weakness. And we don’t want to be viewed that way, even though, [a man] can ask for it, and no one’s like: ‘Ah, he’s weak’. But if a woman director asks for help, it’d be like: ‘Oh, she’s not prepared for this role’.” S

ydney Sweeney was born on September 12, 1997, in Spokane, Washington. Her mother is a former criminal defense lawyer and her father works in the hospitality industry. She has one brother. Sweeney was raised in the Idaho panhandle along the Washington border at a rural lakeside home that her family has inhabited for five generations. She has said her family is religious. Sweeney attended school at Saint George’s School in Spokane. 

She was active in numerous sports: “I was in every single sport possible...I was on the soccer team, the baseball team, the snow slalom ski team, I was wakeboarding.” Sweeney said she had a wakeboarding accident as a child when the edge of her board propelled backward and sliced the area next to her eye, leaving a permanent scar. She also participated in combat sports including taekwondo, jujitsu, grappling, and kickboxing. Sweeney said she began practicing combat sports at age 5 to help manage her hyperactivity. Sweeney became interested in acting after auditioning to be an extra in an independent film that was shooting in the Spokane area.

Agencies