The creator of Euphoria, Sam Levinson, is gushing over Sydney Sweeney.
If you don’t know, Sydney‘s storyline on the show’s third season got so much attention over the past few weeks. She had numerous racy scenes as her character Cassie was a popular OnlyFans model.
Sam is explaining that Sydney was a willing participant in the scenes and she didn’t want to “skirt around” any nudity issues
“When I first wrote it … I thought, ‘Well, maybe, we shoot all of this, and we don’t have any nudity.’ I was talking to her about, ‘Maybe there’s ways to shoot around certain things,’ and she looked at me and she’s like, ‘Are you kidding? I’m playing an OnlyFans model. You’re telling me you’re going to skirt around it?’” he recalled on the June 1 episode of The New York Times’ “Popcast” podcast.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, okay. That’s a fair point.’ And so there’s always a discussion of what works best for the character,” he said.
There’s a rule about nudity on set that can help keep actors comfortable
About requiring nudity, he said there’s a rule for that: “If they’re comfortable, they get the role, then the next layer is the intimacy coordinator. I think it’s a SAG [Screen Actors Guild] rule that if an actor then says, after getting cast, actually, I don’t want to do that, we can’t force them to do a scene.”
Sam praised Sydney Sweeney as “fearless”
Sam added, “I think she’s a totally fearless actor. She’s also just wonderfully professional, and shows up just game every day. I adore working with her, because there’s such a flexibility in terms of the performance.”
“I can say, ‘Why don’t we try this scene just a little crazier, with a little more humor.’ Suddenly, this whole other version of the scene can come out just based on her performance. We’re tackling this world of OnlyFans where women are being paid to whisper into an ear-shaped microphone and lick it. There is a level of absurdity to it that is just fun,” he added.
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