Christina Ricci & Sydney Sweeney Talk Playing Meme-able Characters And Doing Nude Scenes
16.06.2022 - 21:31
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Christina Ricci and Sydney Sweeney an’t afraid of demanding roles.
For the latest episode of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” the “Yellowjackets” star sits down for a conversation with the “Euphoria” actress.
“We’ve both played characters that have turned into memes. Olivia’s a meme. Cassie’s a meme,” Ricci remarks.
“Misty’s a meme. Do you like it?” Sweeney asks her.
Ricci admits, “I think it’s really fun.”
“Sometimes when I’m texting my mom, I send back memes of my characters as replies,” Sweeney reveals.
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Despite the meme qualities of the characters, both actresses make sure to imbue their characters with a lot more depth.
“You’re like, ‘Oh, she’s crazy, or she is fanatic — and she’s just emotional.’ But there’s so much going on in her brain that it’s emotions that she’s actually feeling,” Sweeney says of her “Euphoria” character, before asking Ricci, “Do you love playing ‘crazy’?”
“I do. I’m a bit of a contrarian, so I’ve always enjoyed — almost in an immature, rebellious way — playing people that you are supposed to hate,” Ricci says. “And that’s of course just me being a jerk. You were saying if you played Cassie in a way where she wasn’t grounded in extreme pain, you could dismiss the character. I feel like Misty is a similar sort of situation.”
She adds, “It’s just on the edge of camp. And she is the comedy in a lot of the scenes, so my real desire and struggle and whole intention was to just have it all be grounded in reality, and have her be somebody that you might have seen that person on the street and been like, “Oh, what a weirdo” — but this is what’s going on actually inside that weirdo. Even her