Sydney Sweeney, ‘super dorky’ Euphoria actress on new horror film Immaculate, disappointing Madame Web, and why she enjoys being hands-on

Sydney Sweeney, the Euphoria and The White Lotus actress, reveals how she is ‘actually super dorky’ and how she builds her characters ‘from the ground up’

She explains why she is unfazed by the criticism of Madame Web, dives into the making of intense horror film Immaculate, and talks about being a homebody

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US actress Sydney Sweeney at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party in California on March 10, 2024. Sweeney, star of new horror film Immaculate, reveals why she is ‘super dorky’ and explains how she builds her characters ‘from the ground up’. Photo: AFP

Published: 4:15am, 23 Mar 2024Updated: 5:31am, 23 Mar 2024

In just the past few months, Sydney Sweeney has changed. Already a two-time Emmy nominee for her roles In American television shows Euphoria and The White Lotus, she starred in and produced the worldwide box-office hit film Anyone But You.

Such is current career trajectory of the 26-year-old actress that she is unfazed by the severe, mocking response to the recent disappointment Madame Web – a superhero film set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, saying: “I was just hired as an actress in it, so I was just along for the ride for whatever was going to happen.”

Now comes her intense horror film Immaculate, which premiered recently at the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival in the US state of Texas, with Sweeney again starring and producing.

The thriller reunites her with director Michael Mohan, the two having previously worked together on the Netflix high-school dramedy series Everything Sucks and the Amazon Prime Video erotic thriller The Voyeurs.

Sweeney in a still from Madame Web. Photo: AP

Immaculate, with a screenplay credited to Andrew Lobel, follows a devout American woman, Cecilia, who makes her way to a remote Italian convent. She becomes pregnant while still a virgin – a seemingly miraculous event that soon takes a sinister turn.

Here Sweeney and Mohan talk about the movie and touch on its startling ending, but there are no spoilers beyond anything that’s already in the film’s trailer.