‘Completely disgusting’: Sydney Sweeney blasts trolls who screengrabs her nude scenes

Euphoria and The White Lotus star Sydney Sweeney has blasted online trolls who screengrabs her nude scenes and sends them to her family.

Sydney Sweeney has hit out at trolls who screengrab her nude scenes. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for LACMA)

Sydney Sweeney blasted trolls who took screenshots of her nude scenes in Euphoria and tagged her family members online.

“It got to the point where they were tagging my family. My cousins don’t need that. It’s completely disgusting and unfair,” she told GQ in an interview published Friday, reported Page Six.

Sweeney — who plays Cassie Howard in the high school drama — said that the people who sent her family members her naked scenes mirror exactly the kind of sexualisation women face, which the HBO show represents.

“You have a character that goes through the scrutiny of being a sexualised person at school and then an audience that does the same thing,” she told the magazine.

But Sweeney, 25, admitted that the online bullying she received won’t stop her from continuing to do nude scenes in her career.

“I think it’s ridiculous. I’m an artist, I play characters. It makes me want to play characters that piss people off more,” she said.

Sydney Sweeney is an Emmy-nominated actor. Picture: Presley Ann/Getty Images for LACMA

The White Lotus actor also expressed how she has worked her whole life to make people realise that she is more than just her body.

“I had boobs before other girls and I felt ostracised for it,” Sweeney said. “I was embarrassed and I never wanted to change in the locker room. I think that I put on this weird persona other people had of me because of my body. So I did play every sport and I studied really hard and I did everything that people wouldn’t think I would do, to show them that my body doesn’t define who I am.”

Sweeney shared earlier this year that she only does nudity when it’s necessary for the sake of the storyline. She even asked Euphoria director Sam Levinson to cut some of the topless scenes she deemed superfluous.

“There are moments where [my character] Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here,’” she told the Independent in January. “He was like, ‘OK, we don’t need it.’”

Sweeney also shared that she has never been forced to act in any nude scenes that made her uncomfortable.

“I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show,” she had explained, adding, “When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”

Sydney Sweeney is best known for The White Lotus and Euphoria. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/AFP

However, that hasn’t always been the case with some of the other projects she’s been a part of.

“I’ve had experiences where I want to go home and scrub myself completely raw because I feel disgusting,” she said at the time. “I didn’t feel comfortable with my castmate or the crew, and I just didn’t feel like my character would be doing it.”

And while she’s proud of the nude scenes she’s been part of, she also worries the nudity can distract from people noticing her acting skills.

“I’m very proud of my work in Euphoria. I thought it was a great performance. But no one talks about it because I got naked,” she said.

“I do The White Lotus and all of a sudden critics are paying attention. People are loving 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 see that in The Handmaid’s Tale?’”

This article was originally published on Page Six and was reproduced here with permission

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