Sydney Sweeney adds new movie from Mare Of Easttown creator to heap of mostly unseen projects
In addition to another season of Euphoria, Sweeney has an astonishing 10 projects on the burner
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Despite all that time trapped on the floor of a tub, Sydney Sweeney is a very busy lady. Aside from that hit television show where said tub resides, she’s also a burgeoning movie star with some 10 projects in the works. Today, she adds another: Sweeney is joining Julianne Moore for Echo Valley, a thriller about “how far a mother will go to save her child,” Variety reports. Echo Valley comes from Brad Ingelsby, the creator of Mare Of Easttown, and will once again combine a mare and murder. This time it’s a literal mare because Julianne Moore plays a horse trainer on a secluded farm.
As for Sweeney, her role is unclear. Though, that’s kind of her vibe these days. The actor has more than 10 projects in development, including a third season of the mega-hit Euphoria, which is currently delayed by Sam Levinson reportedly and desperately squeezing more sexism into The Idol. So we don’t know when the next time Sweeney will tell the Euphoria-creator that her character doesn’t need to be naked for every scene. Still, she’s apparently playing the lead in Barbarella, appearing in Madame Web, and a grab bag of what appear to be titles for vague, heretofore unmade projects, including something called The Caretaker, The Players Table, The Registration, and Reality. How’s she going to have time to star in Immaculate when she also has “Untitled Rom-Com” and Americana reportedly coming soon?
Obviously, Sweeney is an in-demand actor, and part of staying in-demand is agreeing to projects that may never see the light of day. She’s also someone who’s spoken at length about how job security, even for those at presumably the top of the mountain, is very shaky. Unlike our usual targets (those dastardly nepo babies), Sweeney was not born into the business and, like many of her peers, has to hock garbage on Instagram to prepare for having a child one day. The lack of a middle class in America hits everyone, even a breakout star on two of HBO’s biggest hits.
Still, as happy as we are to see Ms. Sweeney working and, hopefully, making ends meet, we’d like to see the actual work sometime.
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Unlike our usual targets (those dastardly nepo babies), Sweeney was not born into the business and, like many of her peers, has to hock garbage on Instagram to prepare for having a child one day.Nice link! Also, I wonder if it will be one of those situations where someone is steadily doing work but not quite a mega star, and then suddenly she gets cast as Poison Ivy or something and her career skyrockets, and suddenly all the indie/low budget movies she was barely in are released using her name and likeness as the hook.
She’s slipped right into that Amanda Seyfried “Make as many movies and as much money as you can, while you can” slot.
That’s basically the British actor thing isn’t it? Treat acting like the job it is, stay busy, don’t relegate oneself into only being in art.
Yup, and hopefully Sweeney will hit that Seyfried sweet spot where she gets the occasional Mamma Mia! and Mank squeezed in between the crap.
The lack of a middle class in America hits everyone
Except the actual middle class of America, which is roughly half the population going by self-reports or income data and easily larger than either the lower or upper class:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/23/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/Without the middle class, I don’t think the AV Club would exist.
She’s gorgeous. I tried to get into Euphoria recently but…. they’ve got these beautiful women that are my age (early 30s) playing underage high-schoolers. It was weird.
Like the cast is hot on that show… are we supposed to notice that? But they’re highschoolers! But not actually in real life. But still that’s super fucking creepy cuz it’s conditioning people to look at people within a high school setting sexually. Tf is that show doing?
It’s very creepy. Because Sam Levinson is a total creep.
*reads further* wait and she’s a naked-in-every-scene higher-schooler. Jesus frickin christ.
Oh I just did a whole deep dive – I guess there’s backlash against Sydney Sweeney’s nudity in Euphoria? That makes sense, she’s very attractive and I don’t think the nudity is the problem. I think the problem is she’s playing a minor on the show.
i was hoping she would show up in White Lotus season 3.
She’s a good actress but damn she’s really making hay right now. More power to her, but, like…is she THAT good? I guess we’ll see.
She’s Regé-Jean Page. We’re told they’re a mega-star, and attached to project after project, but their resume so far is like… 1 show? (exaggerating, but… basically)
My mom looked like her when she was young. My mom is so hot.
Good call by her. She’s not actually a very good actor, and needs to get paid while she can before her looks fade and hollywood throws her away.