Sydney Sweeney reveals whether she would ever join OnlyFans after wild Euphoria scenes
Sydney Sweeney didn't mind stripping off for X-rated Euphoria season three scenes, because she wanted to portray her character Cassie Howard in "the most vulnerable and insane way possible", but she wouldn't ever join OnlyFans in real life.
Sydney Sweeney agreed to strip off numerous times in Euphoria's latest series to do her character's story "justice" - but insists she would never join OnlyFans herself.
The 28-year-old actress' character Cassie Howard turns to selling X-rated content on the subscription platform in the third season of the HBO Max drama, and before filming began Sydney spoke to the show's creator Sam Levinson about some of her nude scenes.
But the star agreed to them, because she was keen to portray Cassie in "the most vulnerable and insane way possible".
She told Vanity Fair magazine: "He sent me all the scripts and it already had all of Cassie’s scenes in it, the OnlyFan scenes, and he called me afterwards, and he was talking about it, and we talking through it all.
"He asked me how I felt about it, and I told him, 'Look, I’m playing a character.'
"Do I agree with all of Cassie’s decisions? Would I personally make these choices? No, of course not.
"But I’m an actor and that’s my job and this is Cassie’s life and to be able to do her justice and play her how she’s to be played is to bring Sam’s vision to life and to play Cassie in the most vulnerable and insane way possible."
While there has been a backlash from some about the number of X-rated scenes in third season of Euphoria, Sydney "understands" why Sam decided on the OnlyFans storyline for her character.
She added: "From the very beginning, you can see that Cassie has this need to be loved.
"She has a need to be validated by other people.
"She doesn’t know how to love herself unless someone else loves her.
"So I understand how Sam got her to where she was in season three.
"I think she was more excited by the idea of all these people loving her and knowing who she is and feeling like her world isn’t small."
Sam recently revealed Sydney persuaded him to include her character's nude scenes in the latest series - which also stars Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, and Eric Dane - because she didn't want to "skirt around" her character's OnlyFans storyline.
He told The New York Times: "Well, it’s funny, when I first wrote it, I was like, ‘Maybe we shoot all of this and we don’t have any nudity, maybe there’s ways to shoot around certain things?'
"And she looked at me and she was like, ‘Are you kidding? I’m playing an OnlyFans model. You’re telling me you’re going to like, skirt around it?’ And I was like, 'Yeah, OK, that’s a fair point.' "
