Sydney Sweeney has consistently pushed past the limits of a traditional leading role. From the rom-com Anyone But You to the unsettling intensity of Immaculate, she has deliberately chosen roles that stretch her range. Since launching her production banner, Fifty-Fifty Films, in 2020, Sweeney has also become deeply involved as an executive producer. 

After Immaculate and The Housemaid, the actress will continue to expand her creative footprint with her new film. She is set to take up both the roles of actor and producer in the adaptation of a famed 1913 novel.

Sydney Sweeney is set to take the role of the most iconic character, Undine Spragg, in the upcoming film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Custom of the Country. The project will see Sweeney not only star but also serve as a producer. The film will be fully financed by StudioCanal, with Sweeney reuniting with the company after the success of The Housemaid. 

Alongside producers Charles Finch and Alison Owen, StudioCanal will look to release the movie theatrically across multiple territories, including the UK, France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, while also handling worldwide sales at the European Film Market. With the production team set,  Josie Rourke has written the script and will be directing the movie. While casting director Nina Gold looks to assemble a talented ensemble, Sweeney’s casting is praised by Rourke, as per Variety. 

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The director calls the character of Undine a dangerous woman and says casting Sydney Sweeney feels almost predestined, as if Wharton wrote the role with her in mind. That Sweeney has been chosen to play a dangerous female character may not have been an innocent decision, given another title which set up the actress as one is making a splash at the box office.

Sydney Sweeney’s thriller The Housemaid has quietly become one of the biggest hits of her career, recently surpassing $250 million at the global box office. The Lionsgate release, which also stars Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar, had a production budget of $35 million and has already earned more than seven times that amount. The film turned a profit early in its theatrical run, and week-to-week performance indicates it shows no signs of slowing down.

The success of The Housemaid might be one of the most commercially successful films in Sweeney’s career, alongside her highest-grossing project, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which earned over $377 million globally. Lionsgate has already announced plans for a sequel, tentatively titled The Housemaid’s Secret, with Sweeney returning to reprise her role. Given the immense success of the first film, the franchise could potentially become a huge part of Sweeney’s career with several potential films in the lineup. 

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