“There’s the spider itself, which actually bit me, and that was a whole thing,” added Sweeney, noting that the scene took half of a day to film. “And then we have the part of Glen bending over and me checking to see if there are more spiders. I’m very acquainted with Glen now.”
Sweeney recounted the story once more to Jimmy Fallon on December 12, even sharing the footage of when she was actually being bitten by the absolutely ginormous “trained” spider. (“I don’t know how you train a freaking spider,” said Sweeney.)
Sweeney and Powell are currently busy on a press tour promoting their rom-com, which hits theaters on December 22, and all eyes are on them given the many rumors about their electric chemistry, which has been the subject of quite a bit of gossip over the past few months.
However, both Sweeney and Powell have dispelled the rumors, affirming that they’re just good friends. “It’s a rom-com,” Sweeney told Variety in August. “That’s what people want! Glen and I don’t really care. We have so much fun together, and we respect each other so much; he’s such a hard worker, and I’m a hard worker.”
Powell is clearly one of Sweeney’s biggest fans, and he hasn’t been shy about singing her praises. “A great rom-com doesn’t survive without great chemistry, and Sydney is the easiest person to have chemistry with,” Powell recently told ET of their much buzzed-about chemistry. “I mean, immediately, it was like we’d known each other forever, and I think anybody that’s been on the set realizes I never get tired of talking to Sydney.”