00:00I don't think I'll ever be able to live that scene down.
00:03I think it'll follow me for the rest of my life.
00:06Hi, I'm Sydney Sweeney, and this is The Breakdown.
00:09I will usually watch my work at the premiere or when we're editing,
00:15but once it premieres and I'm done, I don't typically watch it again.
00:19Can I talk to you ladies?
00:20We're working, and you don't say no to someone like Addison.
00:24I mean, she'd have to be, like, dead first.
00:27Oh my goodness.
00:28Here I am as Willa on Pretty Little Liars.
00:32So I was a huge fan of the show.
00:35My best friend Jade and I, every week we would get, like, a tub of Cinnabon ice cream,
00:40and we would sit on the couch, and we would just binge watch Pretty Little Liars.
00:44And when this audition came, I remember I was super excited.
00:48It was a very small role, but it was, like, the last episode of the season.
00:54I don't know why, but I wore my glasses to the audition,
00:58and I've never worn my glasses for anything ever before.
01:01I used to feel really self-conscious about wearing glasses,
01:04and I booked it, and they had me wear my glasses in it, which was really exciting.
01:09Hawaiian guy seems to be okay.
01:11Everybody's talking all friendly.
01:12That was Snake and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
01:19I turned 21 while I was filming that, which was a very memorable 21st birthday.
01:25And I was also in the middle of filming season one of Euphoria.
01:28The audition process was probably one of the coolest audition processes I've ever had.
01:34Everybody got the same scene, and you could come in,
01:39and they said if you wanted to do, like, extra credit, in a sense, or extra homework, you could.
01:45And everybody interpreted that in different ways.
01:47I knew that they were interested in me in Snake,
01:50and I decided to write a love letter to Manson.
01:56Some people painted paintings, wrote songs.
01:59Like, it was just, it was a really cool, immersive process.
02:01And then I had a callback, and then had another callback where it was,
02:07I want to say, like, 15, 20 of us, and we just kind of all hung out,
02:12and it was, it was, like, a really cool session where we just sat with him and talked,
02:15and we all got in different groups, and he mixed and matched us.
02:19I remembered once I left there, I called my mom, and I was like,
02:22even if I don't get this, that was probably the coolest experience.
02:25I have ever had, and I'm just lucky enough to be in that room.
02:29And then later that night, I found out that I got it.
02:33He's stimming.
02:34He can entertain himself for hours with just his own hand gestures.
02:37I'm fine in here.
02:39See, Mom, he's fine.
02:40He's being himself, gaming and fapping and bi.
02:43That is Olivia from White Lotus Season 1.
02:48She was a fun character.
02:50She's, like, my mom's worst nightmare.
02:53And it's fun building characters that represent a certain, like, generation almost.
02:59And with Olivia, Mike had it on the page.
03:03Like, it was there.
03:04And then it was just about bringing her to life in a certain way and being in touch.
03:10At that time, I was like, okay, she's going to be one of those people that's, like, on Twitter 24-7.
03:15Oh, my God.
03:16Do I look like I'm in Oklahoma?
03:17Why would your play be set in Oklahoma?
03:19You thought I was auditioning for Oklahoma.
03:21I haven't read it, so.
03:23I don't think I'll ever be able to lift that scene down.
03:26I think it'll follow me for the rest of my life.
03:29What was the hardest scene to shoot?
03:33Whenever we have to do party scenes in Euphoria, they're pretty hard.
03:38Because we usually have over 300 extras.
03:41We're filming night shoots, and they're night shoots back-to-back.
03:44So my call time will be 2.30 p.m.
03:46And I'll be filming until, like, 6, 7 a.m.
03:48And then, again, the next day for a week-long, straight sometimes.
03:53And it's a party, so you're just full of energy.
03:57And Cassie, of course, is just doing chaotic stuff.
04:00And those are probably some of the hardest days.
04:03That bathroom set was actually not a part of the party scene.
04:06So we filmed the party and the bathroom scene, like, weeks and weeks apart.
04:11What I remember the most is trying to figure out exactly how we were going to lay me in the tub.
04:18Because it was a weird-shaped tub, and we had to make sure we saw the phone and the wash regs.
04:24Everything just becomes super technical.
04:26What were your first impressions of some of your fellow cast members?
04:30I was just nervous.
04:32I'd never been on a big, huge TV show like this before.
04:37And automatically, I just became really good friends with Mod.
04:40It was, like, my college, high school friend group that I never really, really got.
04:47But what do I do?
04:49Oh, no.
04:50This is the time that I'm supposed to be meeting people and doing things.
04:56Holly, I gotta call you back.
04:59God damn it.
05:00What I love about that scene is I love physical comedy.
05:05I think it's fun.
05:06I think it's embarrassing.
05:08I think it pulls you out of your comfort zone.
05:10I think that it brings people together in a fun way.
05:13And that was all Will, our director.
05:16I saw Glenn in Top Gun, and then I also met him at the MTV Movie Awards.
05:21And when I was putting together the list for who would star opposite me in Anyone But You,
05:27I wanted to find that guy that everybody likes and is not afraid to have fun
05:34and wanted to just get down and dirty and make this film.
05:40Because, honestly, when I brought it to him, it was just a script.
05:43And so I needed someone who knew that it was going to be a lot of hard work
05:49and we were going to have to put it together.
05:52We're 22-year-old girls in situationships.
05:56We can find out anything about anyone with literally no information.
05:59All right, then.
06:01Coo-coo-coo-coo.
06:02SNL.
06:03You know, I've never actually watched my episode.
06:05I have the worst stage fright.
06:09SNL was my worst nightmare.
06:12But also, it was the most fun, too,
06:15because you're just surrounding yourself with hilarious people.
06:18They all are loving their job
06:20and it's a really incredible thing to be a part of.
06:24But I was petrified.
06:25My mouth, literally, I remember when I was going out to do my monologue,
06:29all of a sudden my mouth dried up.
06:31And I think it's called cod mouth.
06:33I felt like my lips were sticking to the top of my teeth
06:36and I was just talking with my teeth and I was, oh, it was terrifying.
06:40They change things as you're going.
06:42So, like, they're holding up cue cards and they're writing things down
06:45and in the middle of it, they'll just start kind of changing stuff.
06:48So, you just have to, like, be on your toes and it's live.
06:53I need to go back so that I can have a more, like, open experience to it.
06:58I think I'm just so nervous.
06:59So, I don't want to meet you, Mr. King.
07:02Well, tell me about yourself.
07:04Jesse here says that you fight in all pink.
07:09I'm from West Virginia.
07:10What's that got to do with pink?
07:12Nothing, sir.
07:13I'm just telling you about myself.
07:14That is Christy Martin and Christy.
07:17I definitely think that all of the prep from when I was young.
07:22I started kickboxing and grappling when I was 12 until I was about 19
07:25unknowingly was preparing me for the role of a lifetime.
07:30And I'd never quite done something that intense before.
07:33I trained for about two and a half months beforehand
07:36and I gained 35 pounds for the role.
07:39That was a challenge in itself, but then once we started filming,
07:43I had to keep training, so I'd work 14-hour days on set,
07:48but then an hour before my call, I'd work out,
07:50and then usually two to three hours afterwards,
07:53I'd be fight training and working out again.
07:55I did it all for Christy.
07:57When the paparazzi photos came out and I started becoming about my body,
08:01I was like, no, no, no, no, this is for Christy.
08:04Like, I'm here to tell an amazing story, and it's so incredible
08:07that women have bodies that we can tell stories with,
08:11and I think that's a superpower.
08:12And I wanted to redirect it to,
08:17no, this is actually a badass woman,
08:19and what you see is incredible.
08:23Are you hungry?
08:24I'm sure we can turn this dinner for three into a dinner for four.
08:26No, I'm probably just going to go upstairs and get all settled in.
08:31You sure?
08:31If you don't mind, I'll just come down afterwards and tidy up.
08:34Yeah, get settled. Take your time.
08:37We're so happy that you're here.
08:38You just last night we changed your mind.
08:40Thanks.
08:41That is Millie and the Housemaid.
08:44I read the first one, and then I listened to the audiobooks for the second and the third.
08:49What is that like, having a book as one text, a script as another text?
08:54I love it.
08:55The more information I have, the better.
08:57I did Sharp Objects, and it was also a book as well, Gillian Flynn, and I love having the most material possible to be able to kind of dissect and do homework and piece things together.
09:08It makes it like a fun puzzle piece.
09:10I'm like the hugest Amanda Seyfried fan, and when we were talking about different people
09:17to play Nina and Amanda was on the list, I was like, okay, done, doing it.
09:21Come on.
09:22Let's just, let's call her.
09:23I want her.
09:24She is, she's everything.
09:27We were in the production offices, and we were going to do like a hair and makeup wardrobe
09:35test.
09:36I was there already, and then she came in, and I was with my best friend Kaylee, and Kaylee
09:42stood up to take, to give Amanda a hug, and her phone got caught in the back of the chair,
09:46and so when she stood up, the chair was stuck to her, and she was the funniest thing, because
09:51she gives Amanda a hug with a chair in her ass.
09:53It was really funny, but it just kind of was like the start of our really, like, silly,
09:59fun bond, all of us.
10:01If Christy, Millie, Cassie, and you had a chat, what would you name them?
10:07Call her therapist.
10:10Thanks so much for watching.
10:12Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:31Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:32Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:33Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:34Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:35Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:36Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:37Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:38Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:39Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:40Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:41Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:42Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:43Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:44Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:45Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:46Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:47Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
10:48Be sure to check out my Cosmo recovery.
Comments