Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Very excited to bring you my conversation this week with one of the brightest young

stars in Hollywood, Sidney Swini.

Maybe you know her in Lover as Cassie on the hit HBO series Euphoria over the last couple

of seasons with another one on the way.

She loved her in the first season of the White Lotus.

Perhaps you go back a little further to shows like Sharp Objects and Handmaid's Tale.

It's been an incredible five years or so for Swini on a run that she kind of saw coming

as she says very humbly when she was about 10 or 11 years old.

She wrote a five year business plan growing up outside of Spokane, Washington explaining

to her parents how it was going to go down how she was going to break in somehow from

this little town she grew up into Hollywood and become the actress that she is today.

It took a little convincing but when a low budget zombie movie came to her town, she auditioned,

got a part, a parent thought, oh that's the end of it, she got her dream.

No, then they found themselves soon after making the 20 hour round trip driving down to

LA for auditions.

It didn't take five years, it took about 10, but Sidney pulled it off.

She's now in a new film called Reality, which is the true story of the real life national

security agency contractor reality winner who was convicted and said to jail on charges

of stealing classified documents from her workplace and bringing them home.

She called herself a whistleblower.

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