Sydney Sweeney goes make-up free for gritty new role as whistleblower Reality ... trends now
After turning heads at the Met Gala, two-time Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney was completely stripped of all glamour in the first official trailer for her HBO movie Reality, which "dropped Thursday.
In Tina Satter's feature directorial debut - premiering May 29 on HBO and Max - the Spokane-born, LA-raised 25-year-old takes on the role of real-life American intelligence specialist-turned-whistleblower Reality Winner.
'At first they were not sure someone who played Cassie [in HBO's Euphoria] could pull off Reality,' Sydney admitted to EW on Thursday.
In the two-minute preview, the NSA translator - then 25 - is surprised at her Augusta, GA home in 2017 by two FBI agents who interrogate her without reading her the Miranda Rights to remain silent and hire an attorney.
'Reality, what if I said that you printed out classified information? That document has made its way outside of NSA and the most likely candidate is you,' Agent Justin C. Garrick (Josh Hamilton) tells her.
Gritty role: Two-time Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney was completely stripped of all glamour in the first official trailer for her HBO movie Reality, which dropped Thursday
Premiering May 29 on HBO and Max! In Tina Satter's feature directorial debut, the Spokane-born, LA-raised 25-year-old takes on the role of real-life American intelligence specialist-turned-whistleblower Reality Winner
'Now why I'm here is to figure out the why behind this. Was there something that just pushed you over the edge on this?'
Agent R. Wallace Taylor (Marchánt Davis) added: 'I think you know a lot more than what you're telling us at this point.'
Reality replied: 'I'm trying to deploy. I'm not trying to be a whistleblower. That's crazy.'
At one point, Sydney's character is instructed to pose in front of the house for an FBI photographer and the camera cut to the real-life Reality Winner.
In 2018, the 31-year-old Air Force veteran was convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 for leaking a classified report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Reality - who was released early in 2021 for good behavior - is now a CrossFit coach living in Texas and remains on probation until November.
'I am not a traitor. I am not a spy,' Winner told 60 Minutes in 2021.
'I am somebody who only acted out of love for what this country stands for. [The public] was being lied to.'
Arrested: In the two-minute preview, the NSA translator - then 25 - is surprised at her Augusta, GA home in 2017 by two FBI agents who interrogate her without reading her the Miranda Rights to remain silent and hire an attorney
Agent Justin C. Garrick (L, Josh Hamilton) tells her: 'Reality, what if I said that you printed out classified information? That document has
