Sydney Sweeney blasted trolls who took screenshots of her nude scenes in “Euphoria” and tagged her family members customers online.
“It bought to the stage exactly where they had been tagging my spouse and children. My cousins really do not will need that. It is wholly disgusting and unfair,” she explained to GQ in an interview printed Friday.
Sweeney — who performs Cassie Howard in the significant faculty drama — reported that the individuals who sent her household members her naked scenes mirror just the variety of sexualization gals face, which the HBO clearly show represents.
“You have a character that goes through the scrutiny of being a sexualized human being at school and then an audience that does the identical matter,” she instructed the journal.
But Sweeney, 25, admitted that the on the net bullying she acquired won’t prevent her from continuing to do nude scenes in her job.
“I assume it is ridiculous. I’m an artist, I enjoy figures. It makes me want to engage in figures that piss men and women off additional,” she stated.
The “White Lotus” actress also expressed how she has labored her total lifetime to make persons notice that she is a lot more than just her system.
“I had boobs in advance of other ladies and I felt ostracized for it,” Sweeney reported. “I was ashamed and I under no circumstances preferred to improve in the locker place. I believe that I place on this weird persona other men and women had of me due to the fact of my overall body. So I did enjoy just about every activity and I studied genuinely really hard and I did every little thing that people today would not believe I would do, to display them that my system does not outline who I am.”
Sweeney shared earlier this yr that she only does nudity when it’s needed for the sake of the storyline. She even asked “Euphoria” director Sam Levinson to slice some of the topless scenes she deemed superfluous.
“There are moments exactly where [my character] Cassie was intended to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I never seriously assume which is needed listed here,’” she told the Independent in January. “He was like, ‘OK, we don’t have to have it.’”
Sweeney also shared that she has never ever been forced to act in any nude scenes that designed her unpleasant.
“I’ve hardly ever felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was making an attempt to get a nude scene into an HBO present,” she experienced defined, incorporating, “When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”
Nevertheless, that hasn’t generally been the situation with some of the other initiatives she’s been a element of.
“I’ve experienced ordeals in which I want to go household and scrub myself absolutely uncooked due to the fact I really feel disgusting,” she explained at the time. “I did not come to feel snug with my castmate or the crew, and I just did not truly feel like my character would be accomplishing it.”
And while she’s very pleased of the nude scenes she’s been aspect of, she also anxieties the nudity can distract from people today noticing her acting competencies.
“I’m pretty proud of my do the job in ‘Euphoria.’ I considered it was a excellent functionality. But no a single talks about it due to the fact I received naked,” she reported.
“I do ‘The White Lotus’ and all of a sudden critics are shelling out consideration. Men and women are loving me. They’re heading, ‘Oh my God, what’s she performing future?’ I was like, ‘Did you not see that in “Euphoria”? Did you not see that in “The Handmaid’s Tale”?’”
