Sydney Sweeney worked on the horror film “Immaculate” before the “Euphoria” memes.
Sydney Sweeney at the premiere of Immaculate on March 14 in Los Angeles.
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When the second season of trance Airing in early 2022, social media was full of memes of Sydney Sweeney’s horrified expressions on the show, with the internet declaring that the star needed to be put in a horror film as soon as possible. It turns out she was actually working on it, in her last film, Immaculate, very clean, very organized.
“I already had the script, so I was really excited to see everyone’s reactions to it trance Season 2 and everyone says “Horror movie!” Give us a horror movie!” Sweeney said Hollywood Reporter At the film’s Los Angeles premiere at Beyond Fest on Friday. “I was like, ‘Just wait!’ I have something in store for you. “I stuck with it for a long time.”
That it took a long time is an understatement, as she initially screened the project a decade ago, but the film was never produced. Years later, when Sweeney’s star had risen and she was looking to enter production, she revived it alongside director Michael Mohan and writer Andrew Lobel, leading the film as star and producer.
It is the second film she has produced in the past year, following the successful rom-com Anyone but you. As for her producing stars, she points to “Margot Robbie with LuckyChap, and Brad Pitt with Plan B.” “I think they are really inspiring.”
Walking the carpet alongside her grandmothers, who played extras in the film, Sweeney noted that when choosing production projects versus strict acting projects, “It depends on what comes to me and what I find that I want to chase. I want to produce things that I’m not good at so I can tell stories.” For others, it really depends on the story.
As for Immaculate, very clean, very organizedThe film stars Sweeney as an American nun who moves to an Italian convent that hides dark and terrifying secrets. She reunites with Mohan after he directed her to her earlier Everything sucks And Peepers.
“Sydney was my manager, and she hired me, and I wanted to do it for her,” the director said of their third collaboration. “I’m very lucky because we trust each other, and a lot of times when we’re filming, I’ll take a shot and we can look at each other and know what the other is thinking and go to the next shot knowing that. We’re on the same page. This shortcut is great, it makes Really good working relationship.
When he signed on, Mohan also suggested some changes to the script, as “the ending was more traditional and I had an idea of what the ending could be.” Sweeney and her fellow producers agreed with his idea, saying, “I think it’s probably the most disturbing ending in any mainstream horror film.”
As for whether the internet’s hopes for Sweeney’s horror film debut will come true, Mohan promised: “It absolutely lives up to it, there’s no doubt in my mind. I’m not a confident person – I’m very confident that her fans will love it.”
Immaculate, very clean, very organized, Which is also participating in the tournament White lotus“Simona Tabasco, It will be in theaters on March 22.
