Sydney Sweeney is seemingly never not one of the busiest people in Hollywood. In May, her latest film Reality hit Max to rave reviews of her performance in particular. Soon enough, we’ll see her in the Marvel spinoff Madame Web (and, of course, Euphoria season 3 in a couple years). Meanwhile, her production company Fifty-Fifty Films has around a half dozen projects in the pipeline, and earlier this spring, she wrapped filming on her buzzy rom-com with Glen Powell, Anyone But You.
Her key hacks to wellness and maintaining her health amidst such a busy schedule? Water, consistency, and a killer support system. “I’m very consistent,” Sydney Sweeney tells Teen Vogue, sitting inside a pop-up ice cream-style truck for Bai antioxidant infusion drinks in New York City’s Union Square. The pop-up included a boardwalk of games and activations to support the flavored water brand’s summer BAIdration challenge. “I drink water all day. It’s just been a part of me since I was young … now adding in flavors with Bai has been so much fun because I’ve been kind of boring my entire life with clean water.”
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Sweeney works to maintain positive habits whether she’s filming or not, and she tries not to bring her work home with her — even with a heavy project like Reality, which tells the real-life story of an intelligence contractor-turned-whistleblower who was imprisoned for leaking classified documents about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “I have really good people that I surround myself with,” she says. “I have great friends, great family, a great team. And so I’m able to just go home and kind of not bring it to bed with me.”
The Bai partnership is the latest in a slate of brand deals for the Euphoria star, who is as intentional with the companies she partners with as she is with the projects she chooses to take on as an actor and producer.
“I always make sure that it’s something that’s very organic and authentic to who I am. Bai was super organic for me because since I was 12 I drank water,” she says, referring to a bet she made with her parents, who begged her to stop drinking Shirley Temples and Sprite. “Laneige, I love their products. Armani, I use their makeup. Ford, I drive Fords and I built a Bronco. Everything is very who I am as a person. It’s fun being able to, through these different brand relationships and partnerships, show different sides of [myself].”
She recently told People that Bai’s new Pineapple Mango flavor reminded her of her time on The White Lotus. She adds to Teen Vogue, “I ate so many pineapples on set that my tongue felt like I had like little sores all day. It was crazy.” As for a flavor that reminds her of Anyone But You, the rom-com that has people shipping Sweeney and Glen Powell’s characters already? “Maybe coconut. We had some funny moments on set and I feel like coconuts kind of bring in that humor.”
Sweeney is currently wrapping filming on the Apple TV+ thriller Echo Valley with Julianne Moore, a project she’s “excited” for people to see. She’s also about three episodes in to writing The Player’s Table — an adaptation of Jessica Goodman’s bestselling debut novel — which she’s making with her friend and collaborator Halsey. That project, however, is on on pause during the Writers Guild of America strike.
“I hope everybody gets what they want,” Sweeney says about the strike. “You can’t do anything without writers, so everybody deserves to be paid and I hope that we figure something out fast.”
In the meantime, she’s always drinking water and always reading — though she won’t share the name of the book she’s in the middle of currently. It’s potentially a future Fifty-Fifty Films project. “I don’t want to jinx it,” she laughs.