{"id":2228949,"date":"2026-01-09T22:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2228949"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:13:20","slug":"inside-the-surprise-success-of-sydney-sweeney-thriller-the-housemaid-a-family-feud-appearance-that-went-viral-and-servicing-an-underserved-female-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/inside-the-surprise-success-of-sydney-sweeney-thriller-the-housemaid-a-family-feud-appearance-that-went-viral-and-servicing-an-underserved-female-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Surprise Success of Sydney Sweeney Thriller \u2018The Housemaid\u2019: A \u2018Family Feud\u2019 Appearance That Went Viral and Servicing an Underserved Female Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">There\u2019s a scene in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27543632\/\">The Housemaid<\/a>\u201d in which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2858875\/\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3996999\/\">Brandon Sklenar<\/a> watch an old episode of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0177440\/\">Family Feud<\/a>\u201d with host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0206241\/\">Richard Dawson<\/a>. When they were filming the tension-filled sequence in early 2025, a lightbulb suddenly turned on in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7707236\/\">Sweeney<\/a>\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyd goes, \u2018We\u2019ve got to go on \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0177440\/\">Family Feud<\/a>.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018That\u2019s a hilarious idea,\u2019\u201d the film\u2019s director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0082450\/\">Paul Feig<\/a> recalls. \u201cAnd I called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0006881\/\">Lionsgate<\/a> and said, Syd wants to do \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0177440\/\">Family Feud<\/a>\u2019 and they\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019ll make it happen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate\u2019s publicity team did just that. Feig and the film\u2019s stars, including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1086543\/\">Amanda Seyfried<\/a>, competed on the Dec. 4 episode of ABC\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1249208\/\">Celebrity Family Feud<\/a>.\u201d The episode went viral, driving 1.5 million video views within the linear window, according to Talkwalker Social Content Ratings, which tracks interactions for broadcast and cable entertainment series in primetime. And it set the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a scene in \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d in which Sydney Sweeney and Brandon Sklenar watch an old episode of \u201cFamily Feud\u201d with host Richard Dawson. When they were filming the tension-filled sequence in early 2025, a lightbulb suddenly turned on in Sweeney\u2019s head. \u201cSyd goes, \u2018We\u2019ve got to go on \u2018Family Feud.\u2019 And I was like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2228950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2228949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Inside-the-Surprise-Success-of-Sydney-Sweeney-Thriller-\u2018The-Housemaid.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228949\/revisions\/2228951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}