Sydney Sweeney is a diner waitress with big dreams in Billboard‘s exclusive clip from the crime comedy Americana. The movie takes place in South Dakota and chronicles a rogues gallery of folks vigorously pursuing a rare Native American artifact, including colorfully named characters “Lefty” Ledbetter (Paul Walter Hauser), Mandy Starr (Halsey), Dillon MacIntosh (Eric Dane), Ghost Eye (Zahn McClarnon) and Roy Lee Dean (Simon Rex).
In an exclusive peek of the film due out on Friday (Aug. 15), Sweeney and Hauser’s characters bond over their dreams of what they will do with the money if they can obtain the elusive artifact.
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“Half a million dollars, really?” says Sweeney’s shy server Penny Jo Poplin, who has a noticeable stutter.
“That’s what the man said,” replies Hauser’s seemingly shy rancher as Penny Jo places her pistol on the counter and says, “Guess, that’s that.”
With Lefty appearing on edge by the sight of the weapon, Penny Jo tries to reassure him by noting, “They aren’t just gonna give us the artifact, ya know? What are you gonna do with the money when we get it?”
Lefty responds that he doesn’t really need it and offers to give it to her. After he butters her up by saying he has all he needs — good food, good beer, good company — Penny Jo speculates that they have all those things in Nashville, where she plans to go after the big score to try her hand at music.
“Once we get the artifact, I’m gonna sell it for the big bucks and go there to sing professionally,” she says.
“I didn’t know you were a singer,” Hauser responds.
“Nobody does … I’m a hidden gem,” Penny Jo smiles, confirming that she will sing the only kind of music there is — country music.
According to a description, the modern-day Western follows the trail of a rare relic that makes its way to the black market, overturning the lives of a small-town woman and her son as they get “violently intertwined with a quirky local diner waitress, an offbeat military veteran and a corrupt antiquities dealer. Crime and chaos follow when an indigenous group leader and his crew join the fray in order to reclaim the artifact and return it to its rightful place.”
Filmed in 2022, the movie written and directed by Tony Tost (Damnation, Poker Face) and is White Lotus and Euphoria star Sweeney’s latest big screen effort, following on the heels of 2023’s Anyone But You, 2024’s Madame Web and Immaculate and June’s Echo Valley with Julianne Moore and Domhnall Gleeson. She is next slated to appear in the boxing drama Christy, based on the life of real professional pugilist Christy Martin.
Watch Billboard‘s exclusive look at Americana above.
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