Megyn Kelly Calls Out ‘Euphoria’ Creator Over ‘Sick’ Ageplay in Season 3
Megyn Kelly has taken aim at Euphoria creator Sam Levinson over the HBO show’s controversial OnlyFans storyline.
Sydney Sweeney’s gets controversial OnlyFans storyline in ‘Euphoria’ Season 3
In Sunday’s Euphoria Season 3 premiere, fans learned that Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie Howard character had become an adult content creator in order to help pay for her expensive wedding to Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi). One scene featured her dressing up as a puppy dog and vamping for her followers on the social site. And in another, shown in the show’s trailer, she dresses up as an infant and sucks on a pacifier.
Kelly had a big problem with Cassie’s story, blasting it as the “sexualization of a child.”
“She’s dressed as a baby,” she said on the April 14 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show (via OK Magazine), adding that Sweeney’s character is “in a baby’s outfit” and “sucking on a binky pacifier, and her legs are completely spread… The truth is, this is like, this is sexualizing infancy. That’s what this is. And some of the write-ups about this are like, ‘It’s a pretty common kink.'”
Kelly said she was repulsed by the way Levinson treated Cassie’s character and suggested it was part of a larger pattern.
“There’s also a picture of her dressed as a dog being led around on a leash. And I think this guy’s sick,” she continued. “This guy, Sam Levinson, because there are reports of him injecting nudity into the Sydney Sweeney scenes so often she went to him and said, ‘Please stop doing this. It’s very gratuitous.’ And now all these other women have come forward saying he injected nudity into their scenes too.”
Sam Levinson says Cassie’s season 3 storyline has ‘its own humor’
While Levinson hasn’t responded directly to Kelly’s complaints, he has said Cassie’s deliberately controversial season 3 story isn’t meant to be taken quite so seriously.
“[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it,” the director told The Hollywood Reporter. “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 — the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.”
The episode’s lighting emphasizes the disconnect between the image Cassie is projecting online and her grim reality, 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,” Levinson said.
Euphoria airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. Episodes also stream on HBO Max.
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