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Sydney Sweeney has a very acute method to her acting process — but it works!
The Echo Valley actress, 27, stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, June 5, where she touched on her ability to go from one extreme to the other while on set.
After host Jimmy Fallon asked her whether she goes into her trailer to prepare and comes out in character, Sweeney said no and that instead, “I, like, jump in and out. It’s kind of psychotic.”
“Like, you’re happy and fun, and then … ” replied Fallon, 50, which his guest finished, “And then they say, ‘Action!’ and then I’m screaming and crying.”
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“And then they call, ‘Cut!’ and I go, ‘What’s wrong?’ ” Sweeney added, as Fallon and the audience burst into laughter.
Echo Valley was a project that had Sweeney really tapping into big emotions — and as she told Fallon, her primary costar in the film, Julianne Moore, “is the most incredible human being.”
“She’s so kind and fun, and just amazing to work with,” she added.
Asked by Fallon what it was like to “get in those arguing scenes” with Moore, 64, who plays her mother in the movie, Sweeney said, “I felt so bad.”
“I did. ‘Cause I am … I’m vicious. I’m really vicious,” the Immaculate actress admitted.
Sweeney and Moore star alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Kyle McLachlan, Fiona Shaw, Edmund Donovan and Albert Jones in Echo Valley, directed by BAFTA winner Michael Pearce and written by Emmy nominee Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown).
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The “edge-of-your-seat thriller” sees Moore as Kate, “a mother struggling to make peace with her troubled daughter Claire (Sweeney),” per an official synopsis.
The situation between Kate and Claire “becomes even more perilous when Claire shows up on Kate’s doorstep, hysterical and covered in someone else’s blood,” the synopsis adds.
“As Kate pieces together the shocking truth of what happened, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child in this gripping tale of love, sacrifice and survival,” it concludes.
Echo Valley premieres June 13 on Apple TV+.
