Euphoria Star Chloe Cherry Reacts To Controversial Sydney Sweeney OnlyFans Scenes
Euphoria star Chloe Cherry has shared her take on some of season three’s most divisive scenes.
Chloe previously worked as a pornographic performer and OnlyFans model, at one point even appearing in a porn parody of the Emmy-winning series, before being cast as Faye Valentine in the second season of Euphoria.
During a recent interview with Refinery29, the actor was asked for her thoughts on the recent season three storyline in which Sydney Sweeney’s character turning to OnlyFans to pay for her wedding, posing in a series of increasingly provocative photo-shoots, which has raised eyebrows among many viewers, with some critics suggesting that these scenes cross a “degrading” line.
She responded that people today have the “weirdest ideas” and “fantasies of sex work being so empowering” based on news stories about OnlyFans making huge amounts of money.
“I don’t even really understand what it means to be on OnlyFans. Honestly, I don’t even really know what people are doing on there,” she explained. “It’s really hard to say if it would give [Cassie, Sydney Sweeney’s character] any power.
“Obviously, Cassie is extremely attractive, so it probably would lead to her making a lot of money. But it just feels crazy as fuck to see somebody living like Cassie turn to sex work. It’s like, ‘holy shit, that’s where we’re at in society?’.”
She added: “I really think that OnlyFans is a crazy, weird phenomenon of the 2020s that we will look back on and be very confused by.”
Euphoria creator Sam Levison previously weighed in on Cassie’s OnlyFans storyline before the new season began airing.
“What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion,” he insisted, pointing out the use of lighting and the inclusion of her housekeeper as a makeshift photographer was intended to provide a “gnarly and jarring” contrast.
He added: “We wanted to capture what she’s trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is.”
New episodes of Euphoria are coming to Sky and HBO Max every Monday in the UK.