Sydney Sweeney is cast alongside Dakota Johnson in upcoming Sony Marvel film Madame Web … breakout star has been seen in Euphoria and The White Lotus
Sydney Sweeney has been cast in the upcoming Sony Marvel film Madame Web.
The 24-year-old actress joins Dakota Johnson in the movie, according to Deadline, which will be directed by S.J. Clarkson with a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.
It was not immediately clear what role Sweeney will have in the film.
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The latest: Sydney Sweeney, 24, has been cast in the upcoming Sony Marvel film Madame Web. The actress was snapped earlier this month in Santa Monica, California at the Film Independent Spirit Awards
The Spokane, Washington native - who has garnered attention for her performances as Cassie Howard on Euphoria, and Olivia Mossbacher on The White Lotus - had been milling various offers for roles, sources told Deadline, and was inclined to pair with Johnson in the female-driven motion picture.
Sweeney over the past few years has had a number of other notable performances in films, playing Pippa in The Voyeurs, and Juliet in Nocturne.
Sweeney is currently working on the film National Anthem alongside Simon Rex and Halsey for filmmaker Tony Tost.
Madame Web in the comic is seen as an older woman with psychic sensory powers battling Myasthenia Gravis, and linked to a life-support system resembling a spider web. The character, initially seen in the 1980 comic The Amazing Spider-Man No. 210, has not directly participated in conflict, but dispatched others on missions.
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The breakout star had been milling various offers for roles, sources told Deadline, and was inclined to pair with Dakota Johnson in the female-driven motion picture
![The Spokane, Washington native has garnered attention for her recent performances as Cassie Howard on Euphoria and Olivia Mossbacher on The White Lotus. She was snapped in LA in January](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/16/21/55448849-10621183-image-a-22_1647467348298.jpg)
The Spokane, Washington native has garnered attention for her recent performances as Cassie Howard on Euphoria and Olivia Mossbacher on The White Lotus. She was snapped in LA in January
![Sweeney joins actress Dakota Johnson, pictured in December in NYC, in the forthcoming film](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/16/22/55451403-10621183-image-m-36_1647471296478.jpg)
Sweeney joins actress Dakota Johnson, pictured in December in NYC, in the forthcoming film
Sources told the outlet that the character, who has been an ally to Spider-Man, could be similar to that of Doctor Strange.
Sony has fared well commercially with recent releases such as Spider-Man: No Way Home, which took in $1.85 billion worldwide, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which had made more than $500 million worldwide. The studio is focused on branching out its Spider-Man-linked projects with films focused on characters such as Venom, Morbius and Kraven the Hunter.
Sweeney has also been involved in setting up a production company called Fifty-Fifty Films, which she told Cosmopolitan last month was an outgrowth of her passion for branding and marketing.
'I love the idea of being like, "Okay, I love this project, now how can I make this consumable to a mass market?"' she said. 'So I called my agents and was like, "Do you think this is something I can achieve?"
'They’ve always believed in everything I put my mind to, so they supported me and sent me books to consider ... but I don’t think they thought I’d become so engrossed in it.'
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