Sydney Sweeney Calls Out the Double Standard Women Face Doing Nude Scenes
Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney used her Cosmopolitan interview to raise an important point about nude scenes and the disparity between how men and women are treated for doing them in Hollywood. Cosmo asked the actress how she feels about shooting the scenes (Sweeney has done them for Euphoria and The Voyeurs).
“I’m so disconnected from it,” she started. “When I get tagged in Cassie’s or Pippa from The Voyeurs’s nudes, it feels like me looking at their nudes, not Sydney’s nudes. When you film one of these scenes, it is so technical and so not romantic. There are people staring at you, there’s pads between you, there’s nipple covers and weird sticker thongs all up in your butt. When I saw The Voyeurs for the first time, I wondered if I’d done too much. I researched celebrities who have done nude scenes, trying to make myself feel better. There are hour-long compilations of world-famous male actors with nude scenes who win Oscars and get praised for that work. But the moment a woman does it, it degrades them. They’re not actresses. They just take off their tops so they can get a role. There’s such a double standard and I really hope I can have a little part in changing that.”
Sweeney previously spoke to The Independent about why she asked Euphoria creator Sam Levinson for her character to have fewer nude scenes on Euphoria. “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 said, via Yahoo!. “He was like, ‘Okay, we don’t need it.’”
“I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show,” she added. “When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”
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