“It’s completely disgusting and unfair”: Sydney Sweeney Hates Fans For Sl-t-Shaming Her, Claims She’s Different From Her ‘Euphoria’ Character in Real Life
Sydney Sweeney gained quite a name for herself at the young age of 25. She has starred in several works but what she is globally known for isn’t really a hard guess. Euphoria made the actress a widely known celebrity, giving her exposure, a platform to express herself, and to work with a rather talented team of co-actors, and the fame in turn got her more important projects like MCU’s upcoming Madame Web. But her stint in the HBO series has also brought terrible things upon her, online bullying being the most prominent of them.
Sydney Sweeney infuriated with people not differentiating her from Cassie Howard
Sydney Sweeney as Cassie Howard in Euphoria
On Euphoria,Sydney Sweeney plays the character of Cassie Howard, a high school girl who is terribly sexualized everywhere she goes. She is a victim of leaked n*des in the series and it is shown what an effect such events have on the psyche of a young girl and how traumatizing it can get. But instead of learning the repercussions of hyper-sexualization for the sake of voyeurism that the show aimed to highlight via Cassie’s character, the audience instead started to hypersexualize the actor playing the victim of all these things.
Sydney once told Hunger via CheatSheet,
“I think sometimes it’s hard for people to differentiate me from my characters and because Euphoria and Cassie became such a big thing, they’re like oh wow, she just sells herself on that when literally two months ago I was nominated for a SAG Award from The Handmaid’s Tale. People aren’t able to look at the characters and people as separate sometimes. Honestly, I can’t really let it affect me. I just go on. It’s like whatever.”
The Voyeurs actress is frustrated with her image being pigeonholed as a sl*tty pick-me girl. However, this is not the limit of the disregard that she faces online.
Sydney Sweeney calls out people tagging her family members on her NSFW pictures
Sydney Sweeney has had enough
The Handmaid’s Tale actor is also frustrated with people tagging her family members on NSFW pictures of her character as Cassie Howard, as per reports from Variety. She said,
“My cousins don’t need that. It’s completely disgusting and unfair. You have a character that goes through the scrutiny of being a sexualized person at school and then an audience that does the same thing.”
She further claimed that with time, she has learned to remain unbothered by this kind of image thrust upon her. For her, self-awareness is key.
“I am very different from my characters, and so when I see those kind of pictures or I get tagged in those kind of pictures — which I think is crazy that they can have n*dity on social media that is me and I don’t approve it, but that’s another story — I just separate myself from it. It’s like ‘Oh, that’s Cassie. Cassie’s having a good day.'”
Clearly, being comfortable with the fact that she’s aware of who she is and who she isn’t, makes her ignore all the hate coming her way. Although having n*des of a character you’ve portrayed which is technically yourself, floating around social media has to be a disturbing experience for anyone. And it’s high time people understood that.
