She plays angsty teenager Cassie Howard in the show "Euphoria." In real life, Sydney Sweeney is a car geek, a trained MMA fighter, and is changing the way women are portrayed in Hollywood.
This is her story.
This is her story.
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00:00I'm still trying to figure out, like, me, Sydney, like, who I am, what I stand for, what I want to say.
00:04So, when people are inspired by my characters, I'm like, okay, at least my characters know what the hell they're doing.
00:22I kind of feel like after you have a kid and some women have, like, postpartum depression, I kind of feel that after I wrap a character.
00:28I have this rebirth of trying to find who I am.
00:47What's your name, sweetie?
00:49Lisa.
00:51My mom and my dad were amazing at always keeping my imagination and my creativity alive.
00:57And I think because of that, I have been able to keep such an open mind to everything.
01:17That way, when I go to school for business and I get a contract for $20 million, I can read that contract myself and not get f***ed over.
01:27I love you.
01:48I create her from the day she was born until the first page of the script.
01:58Tell them what they need to hear. Say you sinned. You're sorry.
02:00I can't.
02:11I'd be more than happy to do another small role on a Tarantino film. I don't really care about, oh, I have the whole film or five lines.
02:19If it's an amazing character, an amazing group of people, I'll love it.
02:27I'm so proud to be a part of this show because as an actor, you dream of these very gritty, realistic roles and I feel that Euphoria has that.
02:52I did competitions. I got first place fighting all guys.
02:57What? You're a badass.
03:20When I got my permit at 15, we were driving one day down the road and she told me to pull over.
03:25She kicked me out of the car and wouldn't let me get back in it until I changed the tires.
03:27And then I fell in love with cars.
03:28Apparently I am trending on Twitter right now for being ugly and I wouldn't have been so surprised if she noticed that.
03:58actually do this like ever but um I think it's really important for people
04:03to see how words actually affect people and I know everyone says like you can't
04:09read things and you shouldn't read things but like I'm a person people need
04:12to be nicer on social media because it's really
04:28I started 50-50 films and I I've got the rights to the book and so we got an
04:49amazing female filmmaker Annabelle Anastasia who's I'm just brilliant and
04:55she's bringing so much depth to the book itself onto screen I think season
05:04two it's like expect the unexpected it's a lot darker there's a lot of different
05:12storylines that you're not going to expect I mean when Sam called me and
05:16told me kind of what he was thinking I was completely thrown off I was like
05:20okay Cassie you're making some decisions I don't know if I agree with you but I
05:25have to agree with you
05:40we're all getting to grow up together and we've all become really close and I
05:46mean they're like my sisters so being able to work on a show where we we go to
05:50such dark places but feel comfortable with one another and support one another
05:54in these places and then get to experience the fun stuff that comes
05:59along with it as well together