People tagged my household in screenshots of nude scenes

Sydney Sweeney blasted trolls who took screenshots of her nude scenes in “Euphoria” and tagged her relations on-line.

“It obtained to the purpose the place they had been tagging my household. My cousins don’t want that. It’s utterly disgusting and unfair,” she advised GQ in an interview printed Friday.

Sweeney — who performs Cassie Howard in the highschool drama — stated that the individuals who despatched her relations her bare scenes mirror precisely the form of sexualization girls face, which the HBO present represents.

“You have a personality that goes by way of the scrutiny of being a sexualized particular person in school after which an viewers that does the identical factor,” she advised the journal.

But Sweeney, 25, admitted that the web bullying she acquired received’t cease her from persevering with to do nude scenes in her profession.

“I believe it’s ridiculous. I’m an artist, I play characters. It makes me wish to play characters that piss folks off extra,” she stated.

The “White Lotus” actress additionally expressed how she has labored her entire life to make folks understand that she is extra than simply her physique.

“I had boobs earlier than different ladies and I felt ostracised for it,” Sweeney stated. “I used to be embarrassed and I by no means wished to alter within the locker room. I believe that I placed on this bizarre persona different folks had of me due to my physique. So I did play each sport and I studied actually exhausting and I did the whole lot that folks wouldn’t suppose I might do, to indicate them that my physique doesn’t outline who I’m.”

Sweeney shared earlier this yr that she solely does nudity when it’s vital for the sake of the storyline. She even requested “Euphoria” director Sam Levinson to chop a number of the topless scenes she deemed superfluous.

“There are moments the place [my character] Cassie was imagined to be shirtless and I might inform Sam, ‘I don’t actually suppose that’s vital right here,’” she advised the Independent in January. “He was like, ‘OK, we don’t want it.’”

Sweeney additionally shared that she has by no means been pressured to behave in any nude scenes that made her uncomfortable.

“I’ve by no means felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was making an attempt to get a nude scene into an HBO present,” she had defined, including, “When I didn’t wish to do it, he didn’t make me.”

However, that hasn’t at all times been the case with a number of the different tasks she’s been part of.

“I’ve had experiences the place I wish to go residence and scrub myself utterly uncooked as a result of I really feel disgusting,” she stated on the time. “I didn’t really feel comfy with my castmate or the crew, and I simply didn’t really feel like my character can be doing it.”

And whereas she’s happy with the nude scenes she’s been a part of, she additionally worries the nudity can distract from folks noticing her appearing abilities.

“I’m very happy with my work in ‘Euphoria.’ I assumed it was an important efficiency. But nobody talks about it as a result of I obtained bare,” she stated.

“I do ‘The White Lotus’ and hastily critics are paying consideration. People are loving me. They’re going, ‘Oh my God, what’s she doing subsequent?’ I used to be like, ‘Did you not see that in “Euphoria”? Did you not see that in “The Handmaid’s Tale”?’”