A version of this story about Sydney Sweeney first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Sydney Sweeney wants to be put through the wringer. She grew up admiring actors like Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, hoping she’d one day step into roles like theirs.
“I always loved how strong they were,” she said, adding that she was attracted to “anything that I watched that was just completely, vastly different from my life.”
At 24 years old, she’s now double Emmy nominated for two roles that arguably fit that bill, entering the HBO stratosphere as emotional high schooler Cassie Howard on “Euphoria,” which subsequently landed her the role of privileged socialite Olivia Mossbacher on “The White Lotus.