Sydney Sweeney only does projects that scare her
Sydney Sweeney is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, and over the last few years, she’s mostly done it through offbeat, unconventional, extremely entertaining movies. Ahead of the release of her latest movie, the nun-horror film Immaculate, Polygon talked to Sweeney about how she picks her projects, and what it means to star in them versus produce them.
According to Sweeney, her process for choosing scripts and projects is simple: It has to scare her. When she’s thinking about scripts, she explains, “If something scares me in a challenging way, then that’s the one I should do.”
It didn’t hurt that Immaculate scared her for more reasons than the sense that it was a challenging role. She first auditioned for the movie a decade ago, when she was 16 — long before Euphoria skyrocketed her fame. Sweeney says Immaculate was “very different” when she first auditioned for it, but that it stuck with her. So when she created her own production company, Fifty-Fifty Films, and started thinking about how to weaponize her love of horror movies for her next project, she immediately wanted to track down the script that still creeped her out all those years later. When she found out that Immaculate was still unproduced, she says she had to jump at that chance.
“I hadn’t seen a character that had gone on such a journey with a crazy arc like Cecilia,” Sweeney said. “She starts off in such a quiet, pure, innocent space and just goes through such a transformation. [...] So it’s really fun to have a character on the acting side that just stretches your legs and challenges you in new ways.”
To take all those risks, both as a producer and an actor, Sweeney says she needed people around her she could trust, which is why she hand-selected the crew and picked her frequent collaborator Michael Mohan to direct.
“Mike and I have worked together on multiple projects, and I’ve always felt like I’ve had such a great relationship with him where I can follow him up,” Sweeney
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