Sydney Sweeney Agreed to Star in ‘Madame Web’ to Help Convince Sony to Greenlight ‘Anyone But You’

Sydney Sweeney gained wider recognition for her roles in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–present) and the first season of the anthology series The White Lotus (2021), which earned her nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 2023, she portrayed Reality Winner in the drama film Reality and led the commercially successful romantic comedy Anyone but You. In 2024, she starred in the superhero film Madame Web, and produced and starred in the horror film Immaculate.

Madame Web was panned by critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $100.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $80 million. Anyone but You, on the contrary, ended up grossing $120M more than Madame Web.

THR reports that allegedly, one source says Sweeney agreed to take on a supporting role in Madame Web, a film in Sony’s Spider-Man universe, to help get Anyone but You approved.

“She wanted to show she was committed to the team,” says a source from Sony Pictures. Even though Madame Web didn’t perform well, Sweeney still earned $750,000 for her role.

Before filming Anyone But You and Madame Web, she starred in Reality, a biopic where she played whistleblower Reality Winner. It was a low-budget drama picked up by HBO and released on Max just over six months before her hit rom-com. Insiders say she earned $65,000 for Reality.

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