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“Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson is defending Sydney Sweeney’s shocking OnlyFans storyline aft it caused a awesome uproar online.
Following Sunday’s Season 3 premiere — successful which Sweeney’s character, Cassie Howard, debuts her caller OnlyFans profession — fans of nan HBO bid took to societal media to telephone retired nan “disgusting” costumes nan character had to deterioration for it, including dressing up arsenic some a babe and a dog.
“[Cassie] has sewage her canine location and her small canine ears and nan nose, and that has its ain humor, but what makes nan segment is nan truth that her housekeeper is nan 1 filming it,” Levinson told nan Hollywood Reporter, explaining really accumulation decided to attack nan scene.
“What we wanted to ever find is nan different furniture of absurdity that we’re capable to necktie into it truthful that we’re not excessively wrong of her imagination aliases illusion — nan gag is to jump out, to break nan wall.”
Levinson and Marcell Rév, nan show’s head of photography, also gave nan outlet a person look astatine really they changeable nan arguable scene.
“An evident prime would’ve been thing modern and very plain and fancy, but we ended up choosing this mid-century home, which is simply a small tacky, but besides stuck successful nan ‘70s,” Rév explained. “It’s astir apt a unusual choice, but besides it gives america possibilities.”
He continued, “OnlyFans has its ain artistic and really you elevate that artistic to nan show’s artistic is simply a challenge, I’m not going to lie.”
Levinson added that nan “gnarly and jarring” lighting they chose was to show really “depressing” her profession connected nan paid subscription tract is.
Although Levinson takes pridefulness successful his imaginative choice, galore viewers were near disturbed and were shocked that Sweeney would moreover work together to partake successful it.
“Why did this woman judge nan role?” one personification tweeted. “I mean, you’re worthy excessively overmuch — why beryllium a artifact for group for illustration that? Why humiliate yourself truthful overmuch for a [show]?”
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“Disgusting, who could ever look astatine this?” added another.
The show’s 3rd and last season follows nan main cast 5 years aft precocious school as they navigate their early 20s.
Howard’s characteristic connected nan show is presently gearing up to opportunity “I do” to Jacob Elordi’s character, Nate Jacobs.
Her OnlyFans profession was introduced to viewers successful nan first trailer for Season 3 of “Euphoria,” released successful January.
It features Sweeney’s characteristic dressed arsenic a dog in a brownish corset — which is from her ain lingerie line, Syrn — paired pinch a tail and ears.
She wags her tail while straddling a doghouse successful nan clip, each earlier turning astir and smiling astatine nan camera.
New episodes of “Euphoria” are disposable for streaming Sundays astatine 9 p.m. ET connected HBO.
