Since breaking out as Cassie Howard in HBO's Euphoria, it would be fair to say that Sydney Sweeney has been on pretty killer form, starring in the l
Since breaking out as Cassie Howard in HBO’s Euphoria, it would be fair to say that Sydney Sweeney has been on pretty killer form, starring in the likes of Immaculate, Anyone But You, The White Lotus, and Reality, and serving as producer on the first two of those as well as upcoming adaptations of Split Fiction and OutRun. In Beast filmmaker Michael Pearce’s upcoming Apple TV+ thriller Echo Valley however, it looks like Sweeney is going to be on an altogether different kind of killer form as Claire, a drug-addicted teenage woman who rocks up on her mother Kate’s (Julianne Moore) doorstep covered in blood that — you guessed it! — ain’t her own. Cue tension, secrecy, and heart-in-mouth moments aplenty as the mother-daughter duo navigate their obscure secret, one which — based on the newly dropped first trailer for the show — manages to pull Domhnall Gleeson, Fiona Shaw, and Kyle MacLachlan into its orbit. Check out the hooky teaser below;
“I… I need help,” sputters a rain- and blood-soaked Claire at the top of this atmospheric first glimpse at Pearce’s latest film. From there, as Sweeney’s Claire — an addict whose now-recently-deceased boyfriend (Edmund Donovan) seems like a bit of a wrong’un — finds herself coming undone, Moore’s matriarch Kate goes into full momma bear mode, burying the body, keeping “close friend” Gleeson at bay when he comes knocking, and going to increasingly extreme lengths to protect her girl as she herself starts to find her increasingly emotionally brittle state unspooling. It’s tense, cheek-clenching stuff, and no less than you’d expect from a filmmaker like Pearce and a writer like Brad Ingelsby, whose knotty, Kate Winslet led Mare Of Easttown provided one of the water cooler series of the decade so far.
Will Claire and Kate get away with murder? Is it even quite so black-and-white and clearcut a case as that? And just how far exactly would a mother go to save her child’s life? The answers to all of those questions and more will be revealed when Echo Valley hits Apple TV+ on 13 June. But if you can’t wait til then for your next Sweeney fix, then be sure to pick up the summer 2025 issue of Empire when it hits newsstands on Thursday 8 May, because we’ve got a major novel interview and photoshoot with the subversive Hollywood A-lister that is, well, a real killer.
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