Sydney Sweeney had two lovable members of the family as costars in her upcoming horror movie, Immaculate.
“I flew my grandmas out,” Sweeney revealed in the course of the Tuesday, February 27, episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “They’d never been to Europe. My Grandy’s dream was to go to Italy, she’s never left the country before, so I surprised them, flew them there, and I let them be extras in the movie.”
The actress, who each starred in and produced the horror flick, defined that they ended up being solid as a pair of “little old nuns,” who occur to additionally reside in the identical Italian convent as her character, Cecila.
Fallon, 49, then reached below his desk and pulled out a photograph from set that Sweeney had despatched him in which one in all her grandmas was in her nun costume outdoors smoking a cigarette.
Sweeney giggled as she proudly pointed towards her grandmother, telling the TV host, “This is my Grandy. She’s iconic and she needed a smoke break in between takes, so we went outside and I had to capture how amazing she looked.”
Sweeney’s grandmas aren’t the one household connection she needed to this film. The Anyone But You star confessed that the rationale she determined to supply Immaculate in the primary place was due to her dad.
“My dad loves horror films,” she dished. “So I grew up watching them with him and I always wanted to do something in that genre.”
Sweeney then shared that she was nearly a part of the movie a number of years in the past. “I auditioned for a version of this movie when I was 16 and they never made it,” she confessed.
Once issues fell by way of, Sweeney mentioned she knew she wanted to do one thing, so she determined to deliver it to life herself.
“So, 10 years later, I decided to make it,” she proclaimed. “I called my agents and I said, ‘I can’t get this script out of my mind. What’s happened with it?’ I then contacted the writer and we then wrote it to match a 25-year-old and then I attached producers to it and took it to a financier and I hired a director. … It was the first thing I ever produced. It was amazing.”
Immaculate hits theaters on Friday, March 22, and follows Cecillia (Sweeney), a spiritual lady who unknowingly strikes right into a haunted Italian convent situated in the picturesque countryside.
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