THE RUNDOWNSydney Sweeney wasn’t at the 2026 Emmys.Euphoria’s final season received seven nominations, with all but one award announced during last week’s pre-telecast show.In June, the actress spoke about saying goodbye to Cassie and how she had actually already done it twice before the third season.While this marks Euphoria’s final Emmys ceremony, Sydney Sweeney wasn’t among the cast members at the show. Her absence is understandable, though: Zendaya’s Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination for her work as Rue was the series’s only nomination to be announced during tonight’s televised ceremony.Sweeney shared what she was up to on Instagram yesterday, posting a nude, football-themed game-day advertisement for the sports trading app Novig timed to Sunday Night Football.Euphoria’s six other nominations (Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program, Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour), Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling, Outstanding Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic), and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Colman Domingo) were called during Sunday’s pre-telecast show.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin//Getty ImagesSydney Sweeney at the L.A. premiere of Euphoria on April 7, 2026.In June, Sweeney spoke to Variety about saying goodbye to her character Cassie. “Every season, we never knew if we were going to be doing a follow-up season, so by the end of season 1 or season 2, I was having this bittersweet moment of continually saying goodbye to Cassie every single time,” she said. “And because there are such big time jumps between each season, yes, I’m coming back to the same character, but I’m coming back to a different place in her life. You’re getting the groundwork of who this character was that you kept jumping in and out of. It’s a really cool challenge and piece of homework to try to fill in all the gaps. But this is my third time saying goodbye to her—and I feel like the third time’s a charm.”She also discussed how playing Cassie has shaped the kind of roles she seeks now, sharing that she didn’t want to be typecast. “I fought so hard against playing roles like Cassie—because, as everyone knows, everyone online is like, Oh, she is Cassie, she’s typecast, that’s all she does,” she said. “If anyone actually looks at what I’ve done between seasons of Euphoria, I’ve done Reality, Christy, The Housemaid, Eden, Anyone But You, such drastically different genres and characters that have no similarity to Cassie. With season 3, as I was filming it, I remember turning to Kaylee [McGregor], my producing partner, and I was like, ‘We’ve got to find more crazy characters.’”“It’s not fun doing my job unless I’m challenged,” she continued. “It’s always a little exciting when you’re scared to go into a scene. I want to find more characters like that. Do I want to find Cassie specifically? No, but I want to find a character that pushes me into crazy levels, and to discover different elements of my craft.”