Don’t ever say that acting isn’t dangerous. Sydney Sweeney learned the hard way when filming on location in Australia for the romcom Anyone But You, which releases in theaters on December 22.
In one scene, Bea (Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) are hiking and run across a huntsman spider. They used a real one for filming, and during the shot it actually bit Sweeney as it rested on her arm. While the Huntsman is very large and very scary looking, it thankfully isn’t deadly.
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Still, it’s a spider biting you, and Sweeney has a very natural reaction: unbridled screaming. Since the spider was supposed to have bitten her character, Powell and the film crew thought she was just taking the scene a little too far dramatically.
Sweeney shared the anecdote when visiting The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and even brought along the “blooper” reel (if you can call it that).
Powell, who sat across from Fallon shortly after Sweeney’s visit, elaborated on the moment and told his own tales of spiders, sharks, Fitbits and emergency helicopter landings.
The moral of the story: don’t trust spiders, even if they have wranglers and names.
