'I was very nervous': Sydney Sweeney reveals which Euphoria scene made her anxious to film
Sydney Sweeney says she was rattled filming a Euphoria scene in which her character Cassie Howard vomited in a hot tub she was sitting in with others.
The 24-year-old star, speaking with Deadline Sunday, opened up about her anxiety over the scene, which was in 'You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can,' the fourth episode of the show's second season.
Asked if there was a scene that made her nervous, the Spokane, Washington-born actress said that 'one was the hot tub scene,' describing the circumstances behind it.
'I had to have a tube in my mouth and it was filling my mouth with disgusting chunks of food and I don’t even know what, and then I had to hold it in my mouth while the scene was happening and act as if it wasn’t happening and then throw up everywhere,' she said of the scene.
She also mentioned a scene from the series' eighth episode in its second season, 'All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name,' in which 'Cassie goes up on stage and ruins her sister’s play.'
Said Sweeney: 'I have terrible stage fright and there was an actual audience in the auditorium that we built. So, I was very nervous, but Maude [Apatow] and I, we had a great time together. She made it more enjoyable for me.'
Sweeney said that playing the role has taught her 'to let go of insecurities' that she might have.
'And she has taught me to fully allow myself to just engulf myself in her emotions,' she said. 'It’s been a really beautiful experience to be able to play out all of her different, crazy emotions that she’s been having to deal with. It’s been really fun.'
Sweeney said that as a performer, she doesn't find herself needing to connect personally to the characters she portrays.
'I actually try to find characters that I don’t connect to at all because I find that challenge interesting,' Sweeney told the outlet. 'I always want to challenge myself so that I can better my craft.
'Cassie, I think is one of the most relatable characters to me, because I search for love in other people and acceptance, and I’m scared of being alone. I was a teenage girl, too, so I definitely relate to her, but most of my characters I try to be vastly different from.'
Sweeney contrasted her role on Euphoria to the one she plays on HBO's The White Lotus as Olivia Mossbacher, who she described as 'like a walking woke Twitter account.
'Olivia thinks that she knows everything, and you have to fully allow yourself to think that you know everything,' Sweeney said. 'She’s expelling who her mother is. She doesn’t want to be anything like her mother, but in doing so, she’s becoming exactly like her. Having to allow that to happen was a fun process.'
Sweeney credited 'a lot of amazing co-stars' on The White Lotus - including Connie Britton, Steve Zahn and Jennifer Coolidge - as helping her drum up confidence to portray the role of Olivia.
'When I was working opposite them, they helped me have that confidence through my character because they allowed themselves to fully become the characters that Mike White created,' she said. 'And Mike White was like, "Don’t even try to be funny." I’m like, "OK." So, they truly helped me find the confidence within my character.'
