Season three of HBO's Euphoria was criticized for its sexualization of Sydney Sweeney, but the showrunner, Sam Levinson, has revealed that the actress fought to keep these scenes included.
In the show, Sweeney's character, Cassie embarks on her career as an influencer and adult content creator. This graphic role included plenty of nudity, innuendos and racy costumes. Levinson was condemned for his treatment of Sweeney and her Euphoria character, but now it's been revealed that they were all her idea.
“Well, it’s funny. When I first wrote it, I was like, ‘Maybe we shoot all of this and we don’t have any ----- Maybe there’s ways to shoot around certain things?’” Levinson said in an interview with The New York Times. “And she looked at me and she was like, ‘Are you kidding? I’m playing an -------model. You’re telling me you’re going to, like, skirt around it?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, OK, that’s a fair point.’”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 05: Sydney Sweeney attends HBO's "Euphoria" Season 2 Photo Call at Goya Studios on January 05, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)The writer/director called Sweeney a “totally fearless actor,” and praised the Christy star for her on-set ethics. “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. There’s a lot of trust that we have," he explained, per The Huffington Post.
On why he decided to give Cassie that career, he admitted he wanted to "tackle" the topic. "There is a level of absurdity to it that is just fun and we’re always trying to come up with ways to make it feel authentic and humorous and dramatic and also speak to the larger wants and wishes of the character.”
In The New York Times, Sam promised that there was still safety on set for his actors, especially during these raunchy scenes. "Even when you go up to audition, let’s use the role of Cassie, you know the role requires a certain amount of nudity. Are you comfortable? If they’re comfortable, they get the role, then the next layer is the intimacy coordinator. I think it’s a SAG 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,” he explained
He emphasised that the strongest, most honest performances come when an "actor feels free and safe", without any tension on-set. "The emotion is going to be blocked. And that’s something I’ve known from my days of studying acting. So my job is to create the kind of best, most conducive environment for the actor to play this character.”
Sydney also recently hit out at her critics, posting an Instagram carousel of behind-the-scenes photos from the season, which was announced as the show's last, with the caption: “It’s called…acting.”
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