Sydney Sweeney feared she would throw up mid-air after she spent the night drinking before going skydiving early three hours after her bar-crawl.
Telling Stephen Colbert she was “terrified” but determined to try something new, the 28-year-old Euphoria actress appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she spoke about her skydiving experience, her family roots and her early ambitions to go into the entertainment business.
Stephen showed a photo of Sydney mid-jump during the show, screaming as she fell through the air with a skydiving instructor strapped to her back.
He asked: “Why would you do this? Do you like heights?”
Sydney replied: “No, I’m scared of heights,” describing the experience as “terrifying”.
When Stephen asked why she decided to go, she explained she was in a “year of trying new things”, adding: “So I decided to jump out of a plane!”
Stephen then asked how she had prepared for the jump.
Sydney said: “I went with my cousins to a town which is, like, three bars and one church, and we went barhopping until 3am. And then I went skydiving at six.”
The host was astonished and asked if she had still been drunk.
Sydney admitted: “I was a little worried stuff would come out – (that) I would not be the only thing falling out of the sky.”
Despite her nerves, she said the jump was “a blast”.
Sydney added: “I was hypnotised by the sight of all the farmland parcels below.”
She added she had leapt over a lake, with Stephen replying: “If you hit a lake at terminal velocity it still doesn’t go well.”
Later in the interview, Sydney spoke about how she persuaded her parents to let her pursue acting as a child.
She said: “I put together a five-year business plan presentation when I was 10 years old.”
Sydney also explained it was a “hard sell” and took “years” to convince them to let her chase her showbiz dreams.
She told Stephen that her mother still has the presentation.
Sydney also said she spends much of her time in Idaho, living in the home once owned by her great-grandparents.
She added: “Growing up, I would run across the backyard to my cousins.
“Three years ago I walked up and knocked on the door and said, ‘I want to buy back my great-grandmother’s house.’”
She said her family had always been “running amok” between neighbouring houses and revealed she had named her property “Camp Run Amok”.
Sydney has become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand young actresses since her breakthrough in HBO’s Euphoria, in which she stars as Cassie Howard.
She has also appeared in The White Lotus, Reality and Anyone But You, and is set to star in the upcoming horror film Immaculate.
