Sidney Sweeney, who plays Cassie Howard in the hit HBO Max series "Euphoria," admitted to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she forgot about her nude scenes in the series when she saw her grandparents in Season 2. invited to the premiere of
But seeing him in the flesh, his reaction was shocking.
"I invited my whole family and I didn't really think about [nudity]," Sweeney, 24, revealed. "I was like, 'It's a Hollywood premiere! You have to come!' We were all sitting next to each other and the huge screen - the huge screen."
She was embarrassed to say that she was "on the floor" and "not thinking" because she was too excited.
However, her grandparents apparently didn't hesitate at all to see their granddaughter naked on the big screen.
"They said I have the best T-Ts in Hollywood," she recalled.
And Sweeney is happy to appear naked on screen when it suits her character and has been vocal about her work on the series, which is inspired by drugs, sex, and the high school drama and renewed for season 3. Is.
However, she feels that her performance gets overlooked due to the nudity.
"I'm very proud of my work on 'Euphoria'," she told the Independent. "I thought it was a good performance. But nobody talks about it because I got naked."
She also bites critics who never paid attention to her "Euphoria" work, but suddenly paid attention to her performance in "White Lotus."
"They're going, 'Oh my god, what's she doing next?' I was like, 'Didn't you see it in "Euphoria"?'" She added, "There's a stigma against actresses who go nude off-screen."
When there are nude scenes of a man, "he still wins awards and receives praise," she said. "But the moment a girl does it, it's completely different."
Still, she noted, producer Sam Levinson never pushed her to be naked when she didn't want to be.
"There are moments where Cassie should have gone shirtless and I'd say to Sam, 'I don't think it's really necessary here.' He was like, 'Well, we don't need that,'" he said.
But nudity is part of Cassie's character, she said, so it's essential.
"We all get naked in real life. We show this character the life and what they are up to,” Sweeney told Teen Vogue earlier this month. "Cassie's body is a different form of communication to her."