Sydney Sweeney talks about the first time her family watched Euphoria and said a few relatives didn’t get far.
During a sample clip for an upcoming episode of Sunday Today with Willie Geistthe Reality actress said her mother knew what to expect from her role in the risqué series created by Sam Levinson.
“My mom visited me on set at the time, so she liked to know the story and I talked to her about it a lot — my dad didn’t,” explains Sweeney. “I didn’t prepare my father at all.”
Sweeney said she didn’t really know how to discuss the HBO show in conversation with her father. “When I talk to my dad, it’s usually not about work,” she added. “We talk, like father-daughter conversations.”
But the Everyone except you actress said her father eventually decided to watch the hit drama anyway “without telling me, with his parents.”
Not knowing what to expect from the series and Sweeney’s Cassie, which follows a group of high school students as they struggle with drugs, sex and violence, she said, “Out.”
“But my grandma… she’s a big supporter of mine,” the star added. “She’s a big fan of mine. In fact, I usually take her all over the world to my different sets and make her an extra.”
Euphoriawhich also stars Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi, Angus Cloud, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie and Barbie Ferreira has been renewed for a third season, though no premiere date has been set.
