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Sydney Sweeney shares video of moment she was bitten by a spider while filming Anyone But You

Sydney Sweeney has shared a video capturing the moment she was bitten by a trained spider on the set of her new film Anyone But You.

The clip was shown as the actress, 26, made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, during which she admitted she thought she was going to die after the spider sunk its teeth into her wrist.

“He’s biting me, he’s biting me. No, he’s really biting me,” she can be heard screaming, as Glen Powell, who stars with her in the rom-com comes to her aid, asking: “It got you? It actually got you?”

Sweeney was checked over by medics after the incident and can laugh about it now, but it was terrifying for her at the time.“Who else bleeds for their romantic comedies?” Fallon quipped, describing her alarm as a “primal scream”.

Sydney Sweeney pictured with her Anybody But You co-star Glen Power (Getty Images)

Fallon displayed an official report from the Columbia Pictures film’s on-set medic, who jokingly wrote: “First aid – Sydney Sweeney (Cast Department) bitten by spider, now Spiderwoman.”

Sweeney said the Anyone But You crew was unaware that she would be playing Spider-Woman in her next project, Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff Madame Web.

Sydney's set tale comes after Powell revealed he “almost died” himself while filming that same scene, during which he was actually nude.

In the scene, Sweeney’s character Bea pulls out a spider from inside Ben’s (Powell) shorts at the top of a cliff, leading him to strip naked in a frightened panic.“You just have to grip it and rip it on a scene like that,” Powell told Variety. “You know you’re not going to leave that filming day looking cool, so you just have to embrace it.”He added: “Taking your clothes off on the side of a cliff in a hurry is not safe either. Nobody talks about that safety issue on set, where I almost died falling off a cliff taking my pants off too fast. But it’s a really fun scene, so it’s all worth it.”

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