The life of Sydney Sweeney

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She plays angsty teenager Cassie Howard in the show "Euphoria." In real life, Sydney Sweeney is a car geek, a trained MMA fighter, and is changing the way women are portrayed in Hollywood.   This is her story.

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00:00I'm still trying to figure out, like, me, Sydney, like, who I am, what I stand for, what I want to say.

00:04So, when people are inspired by my characters, I'm like, okay, at least my characters know what the hell they're doing.

00:22I kind of feel like after you have a kid and some women have, like, postpartum depression, I kind of feel that after I wrap a character.

00:28I have this rebirth of trying to find who I am.

00:47What's your name, sweetie?

00:49Lisa.

00:51My mom and my dad were amazing at always keeping my imagination and my creativity alive.

00:57And I think because of that, I have been able to keep such an open mind to everything.

01:17That way, when I go to school for business and I get a contract for $20 million, I can read that contract myself and not get f***ed over.

01:27I love you.

01:48I create her from the day she was born until the first page of the script.

01:58Tell them what they need to hear. Say you sinned. You're sorry.

02:00I can't.

02:11I'd be more than happy to do another small role on a Tarantino film. I don't really care about, oh, I have the whole film or five lines.

02:19If it's an amazing character, an amazing group of people, I'll love it.

02:27I'm so proud to be a part of this show because as an actor, you dream of these very gritty, realistic roles and I feel that Euphoria has that.

02:52I did competitions. I got first place fighting all guys.

02:57What? You're a badass.

03:20When I got my permit at 15, we were driving one day down the road and she told me to pull over.

03:25She kicked me out of the car and wouldn't let me get back in it until I changed the tires.

03:27And then I fell in love with cars.

03:28Apparently I am trending on Twitter right now for being ugly and I wouldn't have been so surprised if she noticed that.

03:58actually do this like ever but um I think it's really important for people

04:03to see how words actually affect people and I know everyone says like you can't

04:09read things and you shouldn't read things but like I'm a person people need

04:12to be nicer on social media because it's really

04:28I started 50-50 films and I I've got the rights to the book and so we got an

04:49amazing female filmmaker Annabelle Anastasia who's I'm just brilliant and

04:55she's bringing so much depth to the book itself onto screen I think season

05:04two it's like expect the unexpected it's a lot darker there's a lot of different

05:12storylines that you're not going to expect I mean when Sam called me and

05:16told me kind of what he was thinking I was completely thrown off I was like

05:20okay Cassie you're making some decisions I don't know if I agree with you but I

05:25have to agree with you

05:40we're all getting to grow up together and we've all become really close and I

05:46mean they're like my sisters so being able to work on a show where we we go to

05:50such dark places but feel comfortable with one another and support one another

05:54in these places and then get to experience the fun stuff that comes

05:59along with it as well together

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