EuphoriaThe HBO series has been praised by fans for its unfiltered and often deliberately salacious portrayal of high school life. But many have also noted that Sydney Sweeney’s character Cassie seems to have a lot of nudity. She is quite topless.
Sweeney provided some context for the show’s approach to this scene by addressing this issue in a recent interview. “Sam is amazing,” she said, per BuzzFeed, praising series creator Sam Levinson. “There are moments [in the script] where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here’…. He was like, ‘Okay, we don’t need it.’”
Sweeney explained, “I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”
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This is not always true. “I’ve had experiences where I want to go home and scrub myself completely raw because I feel disgusting…. I didn’t feel comfortable with my castmate or the crew, and I just didn’t feel like my character would be doing it,” Sweeney recalled of filming intimate scenes in other projects, adding that in those situations she “didn’t feel like [she] was able to speak up.”
She also pointed out the double standard applied to male and female actors with regard to onscreen nudity, saying there’s a “stigma against actresses who get naked onscreen” and that “when a guy has a sex scene or shows his body, he still wins awards and gets praise, but the moment a girl does it, it’s completely different.”
She also shared the frustration she felt when she had her “breakthrough” moment appearing in the buzzy The White Lotus*—*well after she had already been on EuphoriaAnd The Handmaid’s Tale. “I’m very proud of my work in Euphoria,” Sydney Sweeney said. “I thought it was a great performance. Because I got naked, no one talks about it. I do. The White LotusAll of a sudden, critics are paying attention. People love me. They’re going, ‘Oh my God, what’s she doing next?’ I was like, ‘Did you not see that in Euphoria? Did you not notice that in? The Handmaid’s Tale?’”
Source: Glamour