Sydney Sweeney responded to the concern that her character was often nude by telling The Independent, "I've never felt like [creator] Sam [Levinson] has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. When I didn't want to do it, he didn't make me."
She did admit that she asked for certain scenes to be cut, adding, "There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don't really think that's necessary here. He was like, ‘OK, we don't need it.'"
Sydney later told E! News' Daily Pop, "I think that if it's important to the character, then it's important to the character."