Sydney Sweeney says she was stunned while filming a Euphoria scene in which her character Cassie Howard threw up in a hot tub she was sitting in with others.
The 24-year-old star spoke to Deadline Sunday about her concerns about the scene featured in You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can, the fourth episode of the show’s second season.
When asked if there was a scene that made her nervous, the Spokane, Washington-born actress said “one was the hot tub scene,” describing the circumstances behind it.
The latest: Sydney Sweeney, 24, says she was shocked when she filmed a euphoria scene in which her character threw up in a hot tub she was sitting in with others. She was photographed at an event in LA on Saturday
“I had to have a tube in my mouth and it filled 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 pretend it wasn’t happening and then puked all over the place,” she said of the scene.
She also referenced a scene from the show’s eighth episode in the second season, “All my life my heart has longed for one thing I can’t name,” in which “Cassie walks up on the stage and her sister’s play.” ruined”.
Sweeney said: “I have terrible stage fright, and there was a real 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 comfortable for me.’
Sweeney said playing the role taught her to “let go of insecurities” she might have.
Sweeney said she was nervous while filming a whirlpool scene for the fourth episode of Euphoria’s second season called “You Who Can’t See, Think of Those Who Can.”
The Spokane, Washington-born actress plays Cassie Howard on the hit HBO series
“And she taught me to just allow myself to dive into her feelings,” she said. “It was a really nice experience to be able to act out all of her different crazy emotions that she had to deal with. It was really fun.”
Sweeney said that as a performer she does not have to have a personal connection to the characters she is portraying.
“I actually try to find characters that I have no connection with at all because I find that challenge interesting,” Sweeney told the outlet. “I always want to challenge myself to improve my craft.
“Cassie is one of the characters I feel most relatable to me because I look for love and acceptance in other people and I’m scared of being alone. I was also a young girl so I definitely have a relationship with her, but for most of my characters I try to be very different from them.”
Sweeney said that as a performer she does not have to have a personal connection to the characters she is portraying
Sweeney contrasted her role on Euphoria with that she plays on HBO’s The White Lotus as Olivia Mossbacher, who described her as “like a walking, woke Twitter account.”
“Olivia thinks she knows everything and you have to totally allow yourself to think you know everything,” Sweeney said. ‘She identifies who her mother is. She doesn’t want to be like her mother, but in doing so, she becomes just like her. Having to allow that was fun.”
Sweeney credited “many amazing co-stars” on The White Lotus – including Connie Britton, Steve Zahn and Jennifer Coolidge – which helped her build confidence in portraying the role of Olivia.
“When I worked with them, they helped me develop that confidence through my role 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, ‘Okay.’ So they really helped me find confidence in my character.