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Sydney Sweeney breaks down that infamous Euphoria puking scene

"It was the most disgusting thing I've ever experienced.”

Published on January 25, 2024 06:00PM EST

Sydney Sweeney is spilling the beans about one of her most famous Euphoria scenes.

The White Lotus actress appeared on Hot Ones to discuss her new films Anyone but You and Madame Web, and revealed the behind-the-scenes magic about one of her most infamous scenes on Sam Levinson’s HBO drama, which saw her violently vomit into a hot tub.

Sweeney explained that on-screen puking scenes ordinarily aren’t too complicated. “A lot of films, they'll just have a cup of mushed up anything that they have from craft team mixed with milk and water,” Sweeney explained, “and it’s the most disgusting thing, and you just put it in your mouth and you hold it and then you puke it up.”

However, the Euphoria sequence was different. “Sam, of course, did not want that,” she said. “He just wanted vomit everywhere, so they had to get a pump, and they had this pipe that they just taped and hid on my body, and then they CGI’d it out up my neck. And then there was a horse bit that I had to put in my mouth.”

Sweeney went on to describe how physically unpleasant the shoot was. “During that scene, they're filling my mouth with throw up, and then I and then I open my mouth and it just starts shooting out of my mouth,” she said. “And it was the most disgusting thing I've ever experienced.”

However, she conceded that the unusual tactic helped add realistic volume that other barf scenes lack. “You need the pump. It's a very insane pump, too,” she said. “But the horse bit, it was so — I was like ‘Why do I need the horse bit?’ It was huge.”

Anyone but You is now playing in theaters, while Madame Web opens Feb. 14. You can watch the full Hot Ones interview above.

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