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Sarah El-Mahmoud

Sydney Sweeney Has A Spine-Chilling Birthing Scene In Her New Movie Eden, And I Had To Ask Ron Howard About It

Sydney Sweeney on a beach in Eden.

Ron Howard’s Eden isn't even in our list of upcoming horror movies, but it has one of the scariest scenes of the year. The thriller, which just became part of the 2025 movie releases in theaters now, tells the story of a few people who decided to escape society and move to the Galapagos between World War I and World War II. And during this time, one woman named Margret Wittmer (who is played by Sydney Sweeney) gave birth to her child during some dire circumstances...and not a hospital was in sight.

When CinemaBlend had the chance to speak to Eden’s director, Ron Howard, along with star Jude Law, about shooting the movie, which occurred in the Australian wilderness, I had to ask Howard about what it was like to direct Sydney Sweeney during her chilling birthing scene. In his words:

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