'Euphoria' star Sydney Sweeney says she feels 'disconnected' from nude scenes: 'It is so technical and so not romantic'

• "Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney said that filming nude scenes is "so technical and so not romantic."
• Sweeney told Cosmopolitan that there are usually "people staring at you" and other unglamorous factors.

"Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney said that she feels detached from her nude scenes in her TV shows and films.

"I'm so disconnected from it," Sweeney who stars as Cassie Howard on HBO's gritty teen drama "Euphoria," said in a new interview with Cosmopolitan.

Sweeney, who has starred on shows like "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Sharp Objects," appears nude in her 2021 erotic thriller "The Voyeurs" as well as seasons one and two of "Euphoria." The actress told Cosmopolitan that when she's tagged in social media posts that show her nude while in character, "it feels like me looking at their nudes, not Sydney's nudes."

"When you film one of these scenes, it is so technical and so not romantic," she said. "There are people staring at you, there's pads between you, there's nipple covers and weird sticker thongs all up in your butt."

Sweeney also said that she questioned if she did "too much" in her nude scenes for "The Voyeurs" after watching the film for the first time and "researched celebrities who have done nude scenes, trying to make myself feel better."

"There are hour-long compilations of world-famous male actors with nude scenes who win Oscars and get praised for that work," she said.

"But the moment a woman does it, it degrades them," she continued. "They're not actresses. They just take off their tops so they can get a role. There's such a double standard and I really hope I can have a little part in changing that."

Sweeney has previously spoken about her experience filming intimate scenes in her projects.

"I always look at a script and make sure that it's not just getting thrown in there to be in there," Sweeney told The Guardian in September, adding that she's grateful to have worked with intimacy coordinators on her projects.

The actress also said that after "Euphoria," she had to "stop caring or thinking about" the screenshots of herself nude on the teen drama.

"I am very different from my characters, and so when I see those kinds of pictures or I get tagged in those kinds of pictures — which I think is crazy that they can have nudity on social media that is me and I don't approve it, but that's another story – I just separate myself from it," she said.

In an interview with The Independent released in January, the actress shared similar comments, saying that there's "a stigma against actresses who get naked on screen."

Sweeney also said that she feels comfortable filming nude scenes on "Euphoria" and pushed back against showrunner Sam Levinson in "moments" when her character was originally 'supposed to be shirtless."

"I've never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show," she added. "When I didn't want to do it, he didn't make me."

Comparing her work on "The White Lotus" and "Euphoria," Sweeney said that she's proud of her performances on both series, but people didn't acknowledge it until the former show was released.

"I'm very proud of my work in 'Euphoria,'" she said. "I thought it was a great performance. But no one talks about it because I got naked. I do 'The White Lotus' and all of a sudden critics are paying attention. People are loving me. They're going, 'Oh my God, what's she doing next?' I was like, 'Did you not see that in 'Euphoria?' Did you not see that in 'The Handmaid's Tale?'"