Sydney Sweeney spoke out about the Euphoria carousel scene and admitted she got a pretty awkward phone call from her dad.
The 27-year-old began appearing as teen Cassie Howard in the hit HBO show back in her 2019, marking her big breakthrough performance. Widely praised for the role, she received an Emmy nomination back in 2022 for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
Since that role, Sweeney’s gone on to star in the likes of The White Lotus, Anyone but You and Immaculate. But there’s still some core moments from Euphoria that’ll probably never leave viewers’ memories like, of course, when she really rode the carousel in season one.
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During the fourth episode, when the teens are at the carnival, a crestfallen Cassie ends up taking MDMA before going on the carousel with Daniel (Keean Johnson).
And she really rides the carousel, ending up having an orgasm in her drug-induced state.
Daniel’s not the only shocked one watching though, as the unforgettable moment is watched by a whole audience of people standing around the ride. It was even brought back up with a re-enactment at the end of season two when her sister, Lexi (Maude Apatow), staged a play about their lives.
Discussing playing Cassie, Sweeney told Drew Barrymore she wasn’t quite as ‘rebellious’ as her character when she was growing up.
“But it’s kinda fun, I’m getting to live out those teenage experiences I never really experienced before,” she said.
Although, I’m not so sure getting off on a fairground ride is the most standard of experiences.
As Barrymore assures the star is a ‘good girl’ in real life, Sweeney adds: “I would never do what she did on a carousel. Like, what?”
But her role did lead to a, somewhat unsurprisingly, awkward situation with her dad as she ‘forgot’ to tell him she was doing the hit show.
“And he sat down with my grandparents and turned on Euphoria,” she explained, while cracking up laughing. That only lasted ‘five minutes’ and she soon ‘got the phone call’ from him.
He was quick to simply ask: “What is this?”
“What do you mean what is this?,” Sweeney recalled saying. “Oh my god I completely forgot to tell him – that’s not the show you sit down with Nana for.”
Differently though, her mum was fully aware of the explicit nature of Euphoria as she had visited her numerous times on set.
"My mum visited me on set quite a few times, so she knew the story," she said in a previous interview with NBC's Sunday Today, before adding with a laugh: "I didn't prepare my dad at all."
Topics: Entertainment, Euphoria, HBO, Sydney Sweeney, TV, Celebrity
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