{"id":188043,"date":"2025-12-17T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188043\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:03:05","slug":"sydney-sweeney-calls-the-housemaid-juicy-and-delicious-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188043\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney calls The Housemaid \u2018juicy and delicious\u2019 thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">At the Los Angeles premiere of The Housemaid at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday, Sweeney channelled her inner Marilyn Monroe with a plunging white halter dress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The Euphoria star wore a custom white halter-neck gown by bridal designer Galia Lahav, featuring a waist-cinching bodice and a sweeping skirt finished with a feathered hem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The look was widely compared to the iconic dress worn by Monroe in The Seven Year Itch in 1955.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Sweeney completed the ensemble with loose, flowing waves, bold red lipstick and a shimmery eye, leaning fully into the golden-age Hollywood aesthetic for the high-profile premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The Christy actor was joined by her co-star Seyfried, who stunned in a shimmering red dress from Monse\u2019s Pre-Fall 2026 collection, paired with gold heeled sandals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The pair posed together on the carpet as excitement builds for the psychological thriller\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Based on McFadden\u2019s 2022 novel, The Housemaid follows Millie (Sweeney), a young woman who takes what appears to be her dream job, only to find herself tormented by her increasingly volatile employer Nina (Seyfried).<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Millie eventually discovers Nina and her husband Andrew (Brandon Sklenar) are hiding some sinister secrets about the family\u2019s shocking history of control, abuse and hidden identities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">After the premiere, Sweeney changed outfits for the afterparty, slipping into a second white look with a strapless mini dress adorned with floral appliques, styled with white pumps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">This comes after Sweeney confirmed her \u201cboobs [are] real\u201d and she has not had plastic surgery because she is \u201cso scared of needles\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">In a joint interview with Seyfried for Allure magazine, she said: \u201cLet\u2019s debunk them all [the rumours]. 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I am so scared of needles, you have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Seyfried said: \u201cBut it\u2019s really effective once you get older, I\u2019m telling you right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am too scared of needles,\u201d Sweeney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Los Angeles premiere of The Housemaid at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday, Sweeney channelled her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95,115,430,26195,156,118112,51384,111,139,69,1742,1734,118113,223,8731],"class_list":["post-188043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-and","tag-calls","tag-celebrities","tag-delicious","tag-entertainment","tag-housemaid","tag-juicy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sweeney","tag-sydney","tag-teased","tag-the","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}