Sydney Sweeney Reveals Cut Euphoria Scenes: “We Went to a Strip Club”

Sydney Sweeney says goodbye to Cassie for good, and in a new interview she explains why the character’s provocative storyline did not deter her: “I’m an actress, that’s my job.” She also reveals a scene that was cut from the season, and the request she made to the series creator: “Please release it, I put so much work into it.” Michal Dabi, mako. Published: 10.06.26, 09:39. Sydney Sweeney, “Euphoria” | Photo: Patrick Wymore/HBO

The final season of “Euphoria” delivered plenty of moments that sparked controversy, but few ignited as much discussion as Cassie’s storyline. Some argued that the character, who became an “OnlyFans” model, had become too provocative, that her scenes were intended mainly to shock, and that some of them even portrayed Sydney Sweeney in a ridiculous light. Now, after the series has come to an end, the actress is defending Cassie’s choices and explaining why they made perfect sense to her, while also revealing a scene that was cut at the last minute.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Sweeney said: “From the beginning, you can see that Cassie has a need to be loved. She has a need for validation and recognition from other people. She doesn’t know how to love herself unless someone else loves her, so I understand how Sam (Levinson, the series creator, M.D.) brought her to the place she’s in in season three. I think she was more excited by the idea that all these people loved her, knew who she was, and made her feel like her world was no longer small.”

Cassie’s storyline included plenty of nude scenes, but it turns out that Sweeney herself was the one who insisted they not be toned down. Levinson previously told The New York Times that he initially considered filming the “OnlyFans” scenes more suggestively, without nudity, but Sweeney opposed the idea. “Are you kidding me? I’m playing an OnlyFans model. You’re telling me you’re just going to skip over that?” she told him. Provocative? Sweeney in “Euphoria” | Photo: Eddy Chen/HBO, public relations advertisement

Sweeney said she had conversations with Levinson before filming began, and that she was committed from the start to bringing “Sam’s vision” to life. “He sent me all the scripts, and all of Cassie’s scenes were already in them, including the ‘OnlyFans’ scenes. Then he called me, and we talked about it and all the implications,” she explained. “He asked me how I felt about it, and I said to him, ‘Look, I’m playing a character.’

“Do I agree with all of Cassie’s decisions? Would I personally have made the same choices? No, of course not. But I’m an actress, and that’s my job. This is Cassie’s life, and to do her justice and portray her as she is meant to be portrayed, you have to bring Sam’s vision to life and play Cassie in the most vulnerable, exposed and crazy way possible.”

Later in the interview, Sweeney revealed that Cassie also had a pole-dancing scene in a strip club, but it ended up on the cutting room floor. “There were some really fun scenes where Cassie goes to a strip club with Maddy. They’re filming, and Cassie starts looking at the girls on stage and gets really excited. She says to herself, ‘Wow, these girls are beautiful. I can do that too.’ She gets completely drunk, goes onstage, dresses accordingly and starts pole dancing.” Advertisement

According to her, the scene also required special preparation. “I took pole-dancing lessons, and it was so much fun. Imagine crazy Cassie on a pole, it was just hilarious. But wow, those girls are strong.” Strip club. With Maddy in “Euphoria” | Photo: Eddy Chen/HBO, public relations

So why were the scenes cut? Sweeney explained, “Sam called me a few days before the episode in which the scenes were supposed to appear. He explained that it just didn’t work for the episode, and I completely understood. I was disappointed, but he suggested that maybe we could release it as deleted scenes or behind-the-scenes material, and I said, ‘Please do it, because I put so much hard work into it.’”

Sweeney’s farewell to Cassie was not easy for her, having played the character since the first season in 2019. “Every season, as Sam always says, he approaches it as if it were the last season. We all took that same approach, so I always said goodbye to Cassie on the last day of filming. It’s a bittersweet goodbye, because she’s such a challenging character and she draws me in as an actress. I love going to places other characters might not go. So it’s definitely a hard goodbye, because she’s just so much fun to play.” HBO Max Sydney Sweeney Found a language error?