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"My screaming got a little serious. They thought I was making really serious dramatic choices in a rom-com."
Sydney Sweeney is taking her Madame Web role a little too seriously.
In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the Euphoria star revealed that she was bitten by a spider on the set of her new rom-com Anyone but You.
“They told me it was trained,” Sweeney said of the arachnid. “I don't know how you train a freaking spider. There's no way.”
The scene in question sees Sweeney’s character find a massive huntsman spider in the underwear of Glen Powell’s character. While shooting the scene, the spider got antsy.
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Sydney Sweeney“So, we're filming, and then the thing just starts biting me,” Sweeney said. “But we're in the middle of the scene, and I'm supposed to be screaming, but then my screaming got a little serious. They thought I was making really serious dramatic choices in a rom-com. This is a disaster to any actor out there. It was terrible. So no one cut. So I'm just standing there with this spider on my arm, biting me, and I'm screaming, and just everyone's watching."
Luckily, with Glen Powell comes great responsibility.
“Glen was the only one who was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. I think this is a little real’ and we had to cut,” Sweeney said.
Fallon then showed the audience an official report written up by the film’s on-set medic, who jokingly wrote, “First aid – Sydney Sweeney (Cast Department) bitten by spider, now Spiderwoman."
Sweeney said that the crew was completely unaware of her next project, Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff Madame Web, in which the actress plays Julia Carpenter, a.k.a. Spider-Woman.
After showing the outtake of the spider-bite clip, Sweeney said, “That was, like, a soul scream. I thought I was gonna die. Well, I was like, ‘It's poisonous. I'm gonna die.’”
Anyone but You hits theaters Dec. 22. Madame Web swings onto the big screen Feb. 14.
Watch the full interview — and spider-bite outtake — in the video above.
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