The two-time Olympic gold medal-winning boxer\u2019s life has been turned into rousing drama The Fire Inside, written by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins<\/p>\n
Claressa Shields was two months removed from defending her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an email from Hollywood landed in her inbox. Universal Studios wanted to make a movie about her life story. For Shields, who had spent much of her career fighting for recognition in a sport that marginalized women when they weren\u2019t ignoring them entirely, the offer felt like more than just a career milestone. It was a rare mainstream acknowledgment of her achievements and a chance to amplify to a wider audience the struggles she had endured in and out of the ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never checked my emails back then,\u201d Shields says with a laugh. \u201cBut I saw the subject line, and it said something about a movie. I thought, \u2018A movie about my life? OK, let\u2019s see what they\u2019re talking about.\u2019\u201d That email kicked off a series of phone calls and meetings with the Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Jenkins and other industry heavyweights. \u201cWe negotiated for a year. I was only 20, so I made sure I had a lawyer,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to just sign anything. But once the contract was finalized, the ball started rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n
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