Sydney Sweeney explains how she really feels about OnlyFans as she reflects on wild Euphoria scenes
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Topics: US News, Film and TV, Sydney Sweeney, Euphoria
Sydney Sweeney has opened up with her true feelings about OnlyFans after the third season of Euphoria saw her character starting an account on the platform.
The 28-year-old plays Cassie on the hit HBO show, which recently wrapped with a controversial finale that left many viewers reeling.
Her character's story in the third season, which picked up several years after the second, saw her starting up an OnlyFans account in an effort to get money to pay for her lavish wedding to Nate (Jacob Elordi).
This led to some eyebrow raising moments, such as one where Sweeney was dressed as a baby, as well as frequent nude and sex scenes, including a montage in the fifth episode where she is shooting fetish content for her fans.
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Now, Sweeney herself has opened up about her own feelings about OnlyFans, as well as her role frequently featuring sex and nudity.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Sweeney spoke about how Euphoria's creator Sam Levinson had sent her the scripts for Cassie's scenes.
"He sent me all the scripts and it already had all of Cassie’s scenes in it, the OnlyFans scenes," she told the outlet. "And he called me afterwards, and he was talking about it, and we talking through it all.
"He asked me how I felt about it, and I told him, 'Look, I'm playing a character'.”
The storyline for Cassie in the third and final season has proven controversial among fans, with some criticizing the inclusion of frequent nude and fetish scenes as subjecting Sweeney to a 'humiliation ritual'.
Explaining her own personal feelings about Cassie's plotline, Sweeney said: "Do I agree with all of Cassie's decisions? Would I personally make these choices? No, of course not.
"But I'm an actor and that's my job and this is Cassie's life and to be able to do her justice and play her how she's to be played is to bring Sam's vision to life and to play Cassie in the most vulnerable and insane way possible."
Sweeney went on to speak about Cassie's motivations in the show, saying: "From the very beginning, you can see that Cassie has this need to be loved. She has a need to be validated by other people.
"She doesn't know how to love herself unless someone else loves her."
She added: "I think she was more excited by the idea of all these people loving her and knowing who she is and feeling like her world isn't small."
This season of Euphoria has been notable for featuring a whole host of niche kinks, leaving baffled viewers Googling to confirm that yes, that is a real thing.
In episode five, a fantasy sequence saw Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) grow to outlandish proportions, turning into a giant who terrorizes LA.
Macrophilia is a fetish involving giants, and giantesses, or an extreme size difference
Sex therapist Courtney Boyer told Metro: “Giantess fantasies tend to fixate on a permanently large female figure and the power dynamic that comes with that, while growth eroticizes the change.
“It’s primarily imagination-led. Think consensual roleplay, guided dirty talk, camera perspective play (making someone appear larger than they are), or animation. It’s less about the physical reality and more about immersing yourself in a shared fantasy.”
Episode two saw Cassie dipping her toe into creating OnlyFans content. One video saw her holding a melting ice cream while topless, with the drips running down her breasts.
This is a fetish called sploshing, also known as WAM (wet and messy). It involves the eroticization of food.
Sex psychotherapist Gigi Engle for SexToys.co.uk, told Metro: “Dripping chocolate over somebody is very popular and the other popular thing is filling a bath with jelly and getting in it and feeling the squishiness.”
In episode three, Jules (Hunter Schafer) finds herself having extreme sex with her sugar daddy Ellis, who at one point wraps her in clingfilm.
This is an example of a mummification fetish, where cling film, duct tape or bandages are used to restrict movement.
Dominatrix Melissa Todd told LADbible: “You want to be out of control and it's a kind of bondage that you do without any sort of pain really. You know, [the sub who is mummified is] literally tucked away and you can't wriggle a single inch.”
The episode aired weeks before real-life OnlyFans model Michaela Rylaarsdam pleaded guilty to accidentally killing her client, who died of asphyxiation after he asked her to wrap him in cling film.
The Euphoria scene which caused the most controversy came in episode two, when Cassie posed with pigtails and a dummy, with underwear which resembled a diaper.
Sex therapist Dr Nazanin Moali explained to Mashable that age play ‘is a type of consensual adult role play in which individuals experiment with being in a different age/role than their current developmental phase’.
Ironically, posting that kind of content could have got Cassie banned from OnlyFans in the real world.
The site’s rules prohibit any ‘illegal activity, including actual, claimed, or role-played: exploitation, abuse, or harm of individuals under the age of 18’.
Cast your mind all the way back to episode one, which saw Cassie don puppy ears and a dog collar for a video. Seems pretty tame after everything we’ve seen since, doesn’t it?
LGBTQ+ outlet Them explained that pup play ‘is all about tapping into your primal self as a pup and engaging in an authentic type of play’.
It went on: “Think rolling around on the ground, playing fetch, and generally releasing the stress of human existence in exchange for the euphoria and full-body experience of being a pup.”