W Magazine Summer 2025 delivers ‘Sydney Sweeney Is In a League of Her Own’, with a short but punchy Lynn Hirschberg interview with ‘Euphoria’ character Cassie. After multiple delays, Sweeney is filming the third season of ‘Euphoria’, delivering a gift some fans worried would never appear.

If you find the Hollywood star looking like Little Red Riding Hood above, you are correct. Sydney Sweeney came to play . . . multiple roles in a fashion shoot styled by Allia Alliata di Montereale and lensed by Carlijn Jacobs [IG].

Sweeney’s ‘little red’ outfit is inspired by McQueen with a cape rental. Add Miu Miu for Sweeney’s cover and Celine by Hedi Slimane for the 1970s flower child dress. Complete the W fashion story with Balenciaga, Duran Lantink, Fendi, Hermès, Marc Jacobs and more.

Hirschberg renews the much-reported but always charming story of Sweeney’s family life where — with great family support for exploring her options, even as a young girl — the star “created a PowerPoint presentation of a five-year plan to convince her parents that they should take her to Los Angeles.”

“My mom told me from a very young age to fall in love with as many things as possible,” she said, as the hair guru Jimmy Paul worked on a neat bun. “And so I did fall in love, again and again: I love sports. I love being outside. I was on the ski team, and I wakeboarded. I slalom ski on water. I was on the soccer team and the softball team. And then my parents got me into grappling, which is like wrestling, and kickboxing. I was the only girl at the dojo. I trained there from 13 until about 19. I fought all guys. I liked to think that if shit went down, I might be able to step up.”

Hirshberg doesn’t ask Sweeney — and she doesn’t offer up — any particulars around her love life. All we know is that the star of ‘Anyone but You’, a romantic comedy with Glen Powell, called off her engagement in March to Jonathan Davino, her longtime fiancé.

Professionally, Sweeney appears this summer in ‘Eden’, a survival thriller set in the Galápagos Islands. She also plays Claire, a devious and compelling character drug addict in Apple TV+’s new thriller ‘Echo Valley’.

Sydney Sweeney Plays Boxer Christy Martin

In her third upcoming 2025 release this fall, Sweeney gained more than 30 pounds to play breakthrough female 90s boxer Christy Martin.

Christy Martin with then husband Jim Poster on ebay.

Apparently the real story of the rise to welterweight champion of the coal miner’s daughter from West Virginia — the fierce-fighting female who who put women’s boxing on the map is much more complicated than previously told.

The Guardian reviewed her history in 2022, confirming Martin as the first female to sign with the sport’s iconic promoter, Don King; and the first and and only female boxer to appear on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ then and today, based on AOC searches.

Previous accounts of Christy Martin’s history omitted key chunks of the boxer’s real life, until the Guardian’s Caira Conner unlocked them.

Christy was gay, and trapped in a violent marriage to her manager, Jim Martin, who was 25 years her senior. She constantly needed to get high. And on that early November evening in 2010, Jim, her then-husband, who was also her abuser and cocaine supplier, her blackmailer and confidant, stabbed her three times and shot her in the chest. There would be no more separation between who she was in public and how she survived at home.

The W Magazine story acknowledges this past in much more abbreviated style: “Martin put female boxing on the map in the mid-’90s,” said David Michôd, the director and cowriter of the film. “She was the first woman fighter on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ and fought on the Mike Tyson undercard. Her husband was also her trainer, and then, after her success, he tried to murder her.”

When the film wrapped, Sweeney had exactly seven weeks to lose the 30 pounds. And she did. I can imagine the social media outcry over her accomplishment but prominent actors do it all the time. Not fun, I’m sure but the motivation and decision to return to her Cassie character in ‘Euphoria’ is hers to own. ~ Anne