“I wanted to feel what it was like that body feeling of being a boxer,” she tells Parade. “Because Caitlin, she’s not just Boxer’s girlfriend, she’s his partner in the business. She’s a trainer in the gym, she comes from a boxing family. So I started training with an amazing boxing coach called Ruth Raper in London. I probably started boxing about two months before we started filming and found out that I loved it. I wanted her to feel very different; this character felt very different to me than anything I’d done before, and I wanted to get that in my physicality as well. So, it was fun.”
The Cut isn’t your typical boxing film like Rocky. Rather, it’s a psychological thriller about the extremes that a contender might go to in order to win a title. The story is about a former champion known only as The Boxer (Orlando Bloom), who, after a career-ending defeat, trains for redemption. But as obsession takes hold and reality unravels, he may be spiraling into something far more terrifying.
Caitríona Balfe and Orlando BloomPhoto courtesy of Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label)
So many of the films that Balfe has done, with the possible exception of Belfast, have featured alpha males. But even so, the BAFTA-nominated Irish actress always manages to stand out in them. The Cut is no different.
“I don’t really think I do anything,” she says. “I’m attracted to characters that even if they’re not the central character, they have enough depth and enough of a life and a story that gives them enough humanity to be able to play and to be able to draw on. This is very much Boxer’s film. But Caitlin has such a rich background that you get glimpses of, but it was enough for me to be like, ‘Oh, I know who this person is, I know what her life might have looked like,’ and you start building that.”
Orlando Bloom and Caitríona BalfePhoto courtesy of Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label)
“Her relationship with Boxer, she’s so important to him and his life, and the loss of her and what that means in the story is so important,” Balfe says “If there were to be an angel and a devil sitting on Boxer’s shoulders, [trainer] Boz (John Turturro) would be the devil and Caitlin would be this angel. She’s the light in his life. What I loved about this relationship and this character was that they’re both broken people, but she’s further ahead on her road to recovery.”
While The Cut opens in theaters today, Balfe is back in corsets filming Sense and Sensibility, but also waiting for Season 8 of Outlander to premiere on STARZ, which won’t happen until 2026.
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