Sydney Sweeney Fires Back With 28 Behind-the-Scenes Photos Fox News Today
Sydney Sweeney posted a carousel of behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram on Tuesday and used the caption to push back on criticism of her Euphoria season three work. The 28-year-old wrote, “it’s called… acting,” after viewers objected to Cassie Howard’s sexually explicit storyline in the third and final season.
Cassie Howard's Season Three
Cassie Howard’s arc in season three sent the character into OnlyFans and sexually explicit content, putting Sweeney at the center of the backlash. The response landed on a storyline that already had the show in its third and final season, which left the performance debate attached to a closing chapter rather than a running series.
Python Photos and Dog Costume
One of Sweeney’s photos showed her topless with sheer nude stockings and leaf-shaped coverings while posing with a giant python; another showed her topless in nude thong underwear with a python wrapped around her body. She also posted a mirror selfie in a brown dog costume with dog ears, a collar, a leash, wristbands and a satin corset, and that look became one of Euphoria’s most polarizing moments when it aired.
Other images showed her in a tiny hot pink string bikini kneeling on a bar, hanging upside down from a stripper pole, and wearing the low-cut corset-style wedding dress Cassie wore when she married Nate Jacobs. The post also included selfies in a pink and nude dress with a low-cut rose-trimmed neckline, a gold halter top, and a sheer white babydoll negligee adorned with pink roses over white lingerie.
The photos do more than answer criticism with a sound bite. They show Sweeney using the same imagery that sparked the debate to argue that the work on the show was performance, not provocation for its own sake, and that is the line she chose to defend publicly on Tuesday.
