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Actress Sydney Sweeney plays Julia Carpenter AKA Spider-Woman in the upcoming movie Madame Web, and as it turns out, Sweeney was bitten by a spider in real-life when she was making a different film recently.
While making the movie Anyone But You in Australia, Sweeney was filming a scene where she’s holding a Huntsman spider, and unfortunately for her, it bit her. “They told me it was trained. I don’t know how you train a frickin’ spider,” Sweeney told Jimmy Fallon. When the cameras were rolling, Sweeney started screaming, but the crew apparently thought she was only acting. Her co-star Glen Powell, however, realized it was the real deal and the cameras finally cut.
When she was treated, the medical write-up stated that she was “bitten by spider, now Spider-Woman.” Unbeknownst to people on set, though, Sweeney had already been cast as Spider-Woman in Madame Web.
“I thought I was gonna die,” Sweeney said of the encounter.
In the actual scene from the movie, Sweeney’s character is rubbing Powell’s character on the butt and discovers a lump that turns out to be a spider. They both freak out and the spider crawls onto Sweeney before she shakes it off.
In real life, Huntsman spiders can be big and spooky-looking, but they are reluctant to bite and prefer to run away. Australia has far more dangerous creatures and critters than Huntsman spiders.
Anyone But You releases in theaters on December 22. As for Madame Web, it arrives in February.
