In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney said that playing Cassie led to her being typecast.
Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney has often spoken up about Cassie and her sexuality – “She doesn’t know how to communicate without showing her body. That is a form of communication for her, and she was never taught that you did not need that,” Sweeney told Christina Ricci in her Variety Actors on Actors conversation – the actress recently also opened up about another aspect of playing Cassie: being typecast.
In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Sweeney admitted that she felt typecast after playing Cassie – particularly when she realised that people had been slotting Cassie and her other characters into the same categories.
“Cassie is a sexualised character, and that became a mold that was then [forced] onto me as a human being instead of just Cassie.” Sweeney told the publication.
“I was seeing people say, ‘Oh, she only got this because she showed her boobs.’ I had multiple shows and movies before I even did Euphoria. I look very different in everything I do because I want to become the character individually, and I don’t want people to associate Sydney Sweeney with a character — I want them to fully feel like they’re experiencing another world and another person.” she said.
Sweeney also noted that her role in Euphoria had also thrown a shadow on her other work, with people assuming she was playing the same kind of characters in every new project. This, she also remarked, was not a prejudice that male actors in the industry had to deal with.
“People didn’t tie in that a couple months before, I did Handmaid’s Tale, or before that I was in Everything Sucks. And a month before that I did Sharp Objects and when people then started putting that together and then seeing White Lotus, I think that’s what kind of turned it for everyone.” she said.
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“You look at some of these incredible male actors who get to play the coolest, most diverse characters, and people are just like, “Oh, cool.” No one ever puts any type of stigma behind it.” she added.
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