‘Everything is completely different’: Sydney Sweeney details challenges faced with ‘Reality’ role

Sydney Sweeney is Reality Winner in Tina Satter’s upcoming film, Reality, and taking on this particular project allowed her to play in a different ballgame than she’s ever existed in before.

Sweeney’s portrayal will be a unique path for the actress as she embraces a different type of role; someone who has a history, present, and future. This isn’t someone she can craft her own story, feelings, and emotions around — which is a creative freedom she’s usually given. In breathing life into this story, she’ll be taking on the part of a person a large portion of the world already knows.

Speaking to People, Sweeney opened up about the unique process.

“I’ve always had such creative freedom with that, where I get to truly just create their entire life and their memories and their experiences, and it’s really fun, but Reality is a real person who already has all of those memories and those experiences and those relationships that I wanted to learn and tap into and try and get all of that information that I possibly could, so that I could then put it into the same process that I have, but with the groundwork of a real person and then bring it to the screen.”

While it was certainly quite different, it was also exciting; it was sort of like a research project to dive into Winner’s life, and one she invested a lot of time in.

Sweeney continued by saying that it wasn’t just taking on the part of a real person vs. a character that made things so different; it was the fact that she was also making a jump from television to film, and an opportunity to flex an array of new muscles.

“Reality is such a different experience altogether, that I don’t know if I can even equate the differences, because the TV world is very different from the movie world, and Reality is just so different from Cassie or Olivia. Just the whole process, everything is completely different.”

Cassie, Sweeney’s Euphoria character, and Olivia, the character she breathed life into in The White Lotus, are fan favorite and high-arc storylines. Let’s hope she’s able to bring that caliber to Winner, because she’ll need it. The storyline of the protagonist’s life and the journey we’ll soon take is multifaceted, and you’ll soon witness more twists and turns than you could have imagined.

Fans will soon be able to see Sweeney take on the role of Reality Winner, when Reality hits HBO Max on May 29.