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Sydney Sweeney admitted that not everyone was immediately captivated by her looks.
in an interview with Diversity Published on Monday, christie The actor reveals what it was like when he auditioned for both films and television a teenager living in rural idaho,
“My eyebrow muscles are very strong,” he said. publication As he proved his point by furrowing his eyebrows. “And someone told me to get my face fixed or I wouldn’t make it. I should get Botox. I was 16!”
anyone except you The star continued, recalling another audition horror story in which she was reading a scene “and the casting director is eating a bag of chips, and I was like, ‘You’re not paying attention at all.'”
Despite Swinney denying having had any cosmetic injections, she still managed to attract people’s attention white lotus manufacturer, mike white,
“There was something there that was very disaffected with him,” White said. Diversity What he remembers from Sweeney’s audition for season one of the hit HBO show.
“She was very likable. And I thought it would be helpful because that part is so unlikable on the page. Then in the editing, you realize she just appears on the screen. She’s obviously beautiful in person and photogenic. But my eyes were glued to her no matter who was in the scene with her. It’s this natural screen magnetism that’s hard to measure. She just has it. I don’t know what makes someone a star, but her There’s something about it that just is.”
Sweeney isn’t the only actress who was told to make changes to herself at a young age. Last month, Leonardo DiCaprio revealed that when he got an agent as a young actor, They were told they would need a new name,
Speaking on the New Heights podcast at the time, the Titanic actor and Benicio del Toro were asked to talk about “holy s***” moments in their illustrious careers.
DiCaprio recalled trying to find representation as a child actor, saying that agencies would line people up “like cattle” and say “yes” or “no”.
“I remember saying to my dad, ‘This is terrible,'” he said. “But I went back and they did it again.”
However, when DiCaprio “finally” got an agent when he was about 12 or 13, he recalled being told that his name was “too ethnic”.
“I say, ‘What do you mean? It’s Leonardo DiCaprio.’ They say, ‘No, too ethnic.’ They will never hire you. Your new name is Lenny Williams,” he shared.
The new name was supposed to be both a nickname for Leonardo and a version of DiCaprio’s middle name, which is Wilhelm. However, his father did not appreciate the change after seeing the name Lenny Williams printed on his son’s headshot.
“My father saw this picture, tore it up and said, ‘Over my dead body.'”