Sweeney wears a McQueen dress, tights, and boots; vintage cape from Alias Costume Rental, New York.
INTRODUCTION ABOUT SYDNEY SWEENEY:
American actress and producer Sydney Sweeney is well known for her parts in “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus.” Born September 12, 1997 in Spokane, Washington,
Early in her adolescent years, Sweeney began acting; at the age of 14, she relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue her vocation. She began her career booking minor roles on shows such “90210,” “Criminal Mind,”
” Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Pretty Little Liars,” then she broke through with supporting roles in “Everything Sucks!,” ” Sharp Objects,” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
When Sweeney landed in the HBO series “Euphoria” as adolescent promiscuous Cassie Howard, she gained public notoriety.
Celine by Hedi Slimane dress.
For her work in the second season of the drama series, she was nominated for an Emmy in 2022 in outstanding supporting actress.
Sweeney simultaneously turned heads in another HBO show, Mike White’s “The White Lotus,” in which she played a jaded college student on vacation with her family in Hawaii.
She was double-nominated that year after that performance brought her another supporting actress Emmy mention in the limited or anthology series category.
With her performance of whistle-blower Reality Winner in 2022’s “Reality,” which Berlin Film Festival opened to critical praise, Sweeney’s star kept climbing.
She also founded Fifty-Fifty Films, a production firm, which debuted its first project in December 2023 with the romantic-comedy “Anyone but You.”
Based on a modified Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” the movie stars Sweeney and Glen Powell and did rather well at the box office.
Next for Sweeney comes her Marvel debut in “Madame Web” as Julia Carpenter/Spider-Woman, the horror picture “Immaculate” and thriller “Echo Valley” starring Julianne Moore.
Sydney Sweeney talks on how she really engaged herself in the “Echo Valley” role.
Playing Clair Garrett, the alienated troubled daughter of Juliana Moore’s Kate in the Echo Valley, Sydney Sweeney discussed the technique she used to really sink in the role.
Echo Valley tells the tale of a mother whose very normal existence is disrupted when her blood-covered daughter comes back bearing a grim confession.
Sydney Sweeney belongs in her own league.
Fendi trenchcoat and scarf; Miu Miu bag; Manolo Blahnik sandals.
Intrigued by the concept of being someone else, Sydney Sweeney was getting into character for her first ever W cover on a spring afternoon in Manhattan.
Still in her street clothes of jeans and a loose white T-shirt, Sweeney stated, “I like the feeling of transforming,” her long blonde hair fresh from a shower.
Arriving on the red-eye trip from Los Angeles, she was filming the much awaited third season of Euphoria, the TV show known for Cassie, a sex bomb with a secret love affair with on-and-off lover.
Cassie has been quite busy since the most recent episode of Euphoria, in 2022, in which she experienced an emotional collapse and earned an Emmy nomination.
Following an engaging portrayal as the entitled daughter of an affluent family on vacation in Hawaii in the first season of The White Lotus, she featured opposite Glen Powell in Anyone but You, a romantic comedy about a mismatched marriage.
The movie was a big smash and spawned countless speculations that Sweeney and Powell were dating in real life—speculation that only became stronger when Sweeney called off her engagement to Jonathan Davino, her long-time fiancé, this past March.
Powell and Sydney Sweeney had great chemistry in the movie; their repeated love-hate sequences were meant for laughter, and Sweeney showed a quite different side than her significantly more edgy character on Euphoria.
Sweeney costarred in Eden, a survival thriller set in the Galápagos Islands, out in August, as if that artistic reach were insufficient.
She also starred in a biographical film set to premiere this fall as the trailblazing female boxer Christy Martin and Claire, a charming but cunning drug addict in Apple TV+’s new thriller Echo Valley. Echo Valley had no evidence of Cassie or Anyone but You’s Bea. Claire sends her mother, Julianne Moore, through agony.
“I needed someone with that spark of warmth to win over the audience, even if they had doubts about her,” Echo Valley director Michael Pearce said. Claire also had to be evil.
Sydney Sydney also wanted to terrify us, not to make the figure likeable.”
Sweeney lost more than thirty pounds to play Martin. “Martin placed female boxing on the map in the middle of the 1990s,” said David Michôd, the film’s director and cowriter.
She competed on the Mike Tyson undercard and was the first female combatant covered in Sports Illustrated. Her spouse trained her as well, and subsequently tried to kill her following her triumph.
Our movie is a crazy concoction of personal narrative and inspirational underdog sports-world story.
Sydney coached her butt off to perform the role. Sydney is beautiful in that she arrived every day with her tail wagging, eager to go. She was like a beam of sunlight regardless of how hard it was.
Marc Jacobs dress and shoes.
Saying she loved it, Sydney Sweeney settled into a chair to do her makeup and hair. Having around three and a half months of training, I arrived onboard to portray Christy.
I went to eat. I kickboxed midday for roughly two hours, weight-trained in the morning for one hour, and then again late at night for one hour. Pulling her phone, Sweeney looked for a picture of her as Christy.
She had brown contact lenses and a brown wig set in a kind of mullet in the picture. “My body was utterly different,” she said. ” None of my clothing suited me. Usually measuring 23 in jeans, I was wearing a size 27.
My breasts got bigger. And my butt grew quite large. It was bizarre! I was like, Oh my god. Sweeney chuckled. But I was really strong, like insanely strong.
After the Martin biopic completed, Sydney Sweeney had to drop the weight in just seven weeks for her next endeavor. “I hadn’t seen her in Euphoria,” Michôd added. “I was shocked by her look when FaceTimed her the other day while Sydney was in the makeup truck getting ready for the concert.
I had only seen her as a gorgeous, tough moppet with late- 1980s hair, primed for boxing. Sydney felt the happiest she was in the ring punching and getting punched. Seeing her so glitzy shocked me.
Growing up near Spokane in Washington state, Sweeney, 27, was always driven and enthusiastic. As the hair guru Jimmy Paul worked on a tidy bun, her mother advised her from a very young age to fall in love with as many things as possible.
Balenciaga dress, bow scrunchie, and shoes; Thistles sunglasses; Falke thigh-highs.
“And so I fell in love, repeatedly: I love sports. I enjoy the outdoors. I woke board and belonged to the ski team. I slalom ski across a lake. I belonged to both the softball and soccer teams.
My parents then brought me into grappling, which is like wrestling, and kickboxing. The only female in the dojo was me. I trained there 13 until around 19. I battled all of the guys. I thought I might be able to jump in should everything fall apart.
Along with dream of acting, Sweeney made a PowerPoint presentation showing her parents a five-year plan to persuade them to bring her to Los Angeles.
She replied, changing into a crimson McQueen cable-knit dress with a matching vintage hooded cape, “it took a little longer than five years.” She would be posing several characters today, and the first one was a somewhat modern Little Red Riding Hood.
“I now truly support the 10-year plan. I can’t recall which one was first; my first actual employment was one line on the show Criminal Minds, or maybe Heroes. Given her passion for athletics, I asked her if she ever worried about embarrassing herself or getting hurt.
“No,” Sweeney responded firmly as she got ready to front the camera. “I would have all over me bruises. I really liked it. My mother constantly pushed me to make sure my life included other things outside acting.
Turning to face photographer Carlijn Jacobs as Little Red Riding Hood, Sweeney leaned her head to the side and seemed both modest and intrigued.
Among the eight various parts this was the first: a leather-clad biker chick with smokey eyes and Hermès boots and a 1970s flower child in a short floral Celine dress.
Sports Babe Sydney would sleep in a voluminous Marc Jacobs white lace cloud dress; she would wear a scarlet backless Balenciaga minidress and thigh-high stockings, one pointed heel resting on a volleyball.
Moments later, Sweeney said, changing into a silvery satin Miu Miu gown, “this is a little bit like a prom look.” “I actually skipped my prom,” she said. “But I had a great time throwing a 1980s prom on my 26th birthday!
I hired the space and scattered disco balls and streamers all around. I created a fantastic disco stage and designed personalized lettermen jackets. I employed a caricature artist and an old-fashioned photo booth.
I designated my lawyer as the prom king and my grandmother as the queen. I had a little custom outfit created—pink with ruffs. Sweeney seemed Cassie-like, with a sexy and rebellious attitude, her hair now pulled into a beehive.
Hermès vest, sweater, shorts, gloves, and boots; stylist’s own hat.
“I was amazed by how quickly Sydney could enter and exit character,” Michôd said. She has so many things going on in her life: I believe she owns four different homes and she constantly has fresh business ideas.
With Sydney, the work is not the be-all and end-all; she excels in anything she chooses to do.
Sweeney actually has endorsement arrangements with ten different companies—Kérastase, Laneige, Miu Miu, among others. She does love real estate, and she said she became starstruck only after she visited HGTV stars Drew and Jonathan Scott.
“Those are the only reality shows I see,” added Sweeney. “I freacked out when I saw the Property Brothers.”
Sweeney got ready for the next look: a roller Derby queen in red and white striped stockings, a matching helmet, red Prada shorts, and the pièce de résistance, an overdone push-up bra.
Says Sweeney, “This will be funny.” She was thinking, according to her nature, like both a performer and a producer. “She could pull back and see the whole movie,” Pearce had already told me.
“To help her develop the persona, I showed her what seemed like hundreds of interviews with drug users living on Skid Row before we started Echo Valley.
Sydney managed to capture that genuine feeling and weave it into the rest of the movie.
Looking in the mirror, Sweeney changed the crash helmet. Speaking of the jobs she choose, she remarked that, “if something scares me, then usually I’m going to do it, because that means I’m challenging myself.”
Her stop was deliberate. Still, I have quite severe stage fear.
Though I’m improving now, I really credit everyone that performs live talks or theater. Both terrified me. She is not afraid, though when it comes to performing naked. “I am not anxious,” she said.
“The female body strikes me as a quite potent tool. Furthermore, I am narrating the story of my character; thus, I owe it to them to do what is necessary and to present it properly.
Miu Miu dress; De Beers earrings.
Right now, that character happened to be a badass skating star. Sweeney arranged her hair on her shoulders and patted down the helmet. “I may never get to do this again,” she said. “Let’s go be this person.”
Hair by Jimmy Paul at Susan Price NYC; makeup by Diane Kendal at Art Partner; manicure by Eri Handa for Dior Beauty. Set design by Mila Taylor-Young at CLM.
Produced by ProdN; Senior Producer: Conor McIntyre; Producer: Taryn Kelly; Photo Assistants: Pierre Nowak, Tom Maltbie; Fashion assistants: Celeste Roh, Lila Hathaway; Production assistants: Sasha Smithie, Aaron Pimentel, Johnny Donohue; Hair assistant: Tomoko Kuwamura; Makeup assistant: Mical Klip; Set assistants: Kate Atkinson, Cedar Kirwin; Tailor: Lindsay Amir Wright.
