Sydney Sweeney talks putting her body through hell for her art (including eating spicy wings)
The Anyone But You star stopped by Hot Ones to discuss throwing up for Euphoria, a childhood wakeboarding accident, and more
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Ever since she rose to prominence—nay, superstardom—through her role in Euphoria four years ago, Sydney Sweeney has had to contend with an upsetting amount of unwanted attention heaped upon her body. In the wake of all that unnecessary sexualization, those same commentators seem to have overlooked the fact that the Anyone But You star has actually performed some pretty remarkable physical feats—ones that would make even the fiercest competitors on Fear Factor squirm. Luckily, all it took was Sean Evans and some really spicy wings to bring those stunts to the forefront.
Exhibit A: that Euphoria throw-up scene. (Warning: it’s graphic.) Apparently not understanding the cardinal rule of avoiding chatter about gross bodily functions during meal time (on camera to boot!), it took Evans only four wings to ask Sweeney exactly how she made that memorable moment happen.
“There was a lot of work that went behind that,” Sweeney responded. Normally, she explained, production will just mix up a cup of anything from craft services and mix it with milk and water (“it’s the most disgusting thing!”) and actors will put the whole nasty concoction in their mouth, hold it, and spit it back out. But that wasn’t good enough for Sam Levinson, who really wanted to heighten Cassie’s humiliation by having her projectile vomit… emphasis on projectile. The solution, apparently, was a pump attached to a tube that was taped to Sweeney’s body and went into her mouth, slowly filling it up with fake puke as the scene progressed. (The tube was later CGI’d out.) The actor also wore a “huge” horse bit while this was happening, presumably to hold back the gunk, until she opened her mouth and it started “shooting out.” “It was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever experienced,” she said.
During her interview, Sweeney also discussed her passion for dirt bikes, MMA training, fixing up old cars, and high-intensity sports like wakeboarding, the latter of which gave her a permanent scar near her eye after her board popped up and sliced her face open when she was 11 or 12 years old. Between all of this and her recent real-life spider bite on the set of Anyone But You—something she still has a mark on her wrist from, according to her co-star Glen Powell—it feels like high time she gets an action franchise of her own.
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Trust me when I say the headline did not initially make any fucking sense. Also trust me that my joke was VERY funny in that context.
Superstar? Really? She has one thing going for her. Well, two…
Those two things are superstars.
Jesus had two too.
A Handmaid’s Tale, Sharp Objects, Euphoria, and The White Lotus, the latter two of which earned her two Emmy nominations. It looks as though she has at least four, and that’s not bad. I won’t ask that one thing that you’re thinking about.
She’s probably the best actress of her generation, so I feel like superstar is accurate. Her, Florence Pugh and Jenna Ortega are the new Meryl, Susan Sarandon and Sally Field.
I’ve only seen her in “Anyone But You” and I’m not inclined to agree. Unless she actually trying in the other things she’s in.
Agreed. Euphoria is a little too under the radar to justify the “superstardom” label for any of its cast. To me, she’s just that gal from White Lotus, S1.
That vomit scene, wtf. This extreme seems all of a type with alot of Levinson’s scenes/shots. He sounds like a fetishist. Scenes can be nightmarish without giving your actors one.
Scenes can be nightmarish without giving your actors one.If Stanley Kubrick were alive today, he’d break your kneecaps with a baseball bat for saying that.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/stanley-kubrick-a-clockwork-orange-temporary-blinded-malcolm-mcdowell/
Ugh. I remember that. Verite was all the fashion. Hollywood doctors must have done well. In this case, London.
“But that wasn’t good enough for Sam Levinson, who really wanted to heighten Cassie’s humiliation…”Levinson must be stopped. This is the same guy that had a scene in the first episode of his shitty recent show with a character loudly complaining about on set intimacy coordinators. Fucking awful.
The Idol is trash, but I can’t see what’s wrong with a character on a TV show expressing hostility to intimacy coordinators. TV characters are not designed only to spout our own views back us.
Levinson is not smart enough to have his own TV characters have their own thoughts. He lamely complained about not being able to abuse young actresses on his sets through his shit dialogue. Like I said, must be stopped.
She’s probably too big for this now, but I’d watch the hell out of a “Sydney Sweeney and celebrity friend of the week work on old cars while interviewing each other” show. Like Actors On Actors, but less boring.
I’d watch, and honestly her restoring that, Bronco I think it was, is probably the sexiest thing she has done lol.
I guess this means she’s game for that remake of City of the Walking Dead