There’s acting and then there’s method acting.
While some actors go to great lengths to get their performance just right, sometimes method acting just happens to the actor. That was the case with actor Sydney Sweeney in a scene for her new movie Anyone But You.
In the scene, the character freaks out when a huntsman spider—which is enormous—crawls on her arm. Sweeney was mostly okay with the spider, but as she told late night host Jimmy Fallon, she wasn’t ready for her partner in the scene to actually bite her.
Sweeney had been assured that the spider was “trained,” but she told Fallon:
“I don’t know how you train a friggin’ spider.”
The spider, which is venomous but not usually enough to harm humans, was not supposed to bite her, and her screams for acting effect soon became real screams of terror.
In a clip shared with Fallon, the cast and crew took a moment to catch on that she wasn’t just acting.
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People reacted to the size of the spider.
Some associated the spider with its native Australia.
Others imagined what they would do if that happened to them.
Sweeney's reaction was pretty intense, some pointed out.
Really, just some truly epic method acting.
Then there's Sweeney’s other new role as Madame Web in the upcoming film of the same name in 2024.
The rom-com that Sweeney endured the huntsman spider for is Anyone But You, which will be in theaters late this December.
Jane Rosenberg
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