Sydney Sweeney was instructed to agitate spider that bit her on Anyone but You

Actress Sydney Sweeney revealed earlier this month that she was bitten by a trained Huntsman spider while filming romantic comedy ‘Anyone but You’, but it turns out she was encourd to move her arm in a way that provoked it.

" Huntsman spider, when she brings it out on her hand, it's motionless," her co-star Glen Powell said, reports Entertainment Weekly.

He added, “And y're like, 'It looks fake, so jostle it a little bit'. And I'm like, 'Jostle it?' And y're like, 'Yeah, you have to shake it to make it move’."

Powell continued, "So, she's having to do this insert shot where she's shaking this spider and agitating it. And I was like, 'Why are we agitating this real Huntsman spider?' So that's how it happened -- y coached her into agitating this spider. I'm like, 'Of course that's going to happen’."

As per Entertainment Weekly, Sweeney told Jimmy Fallon that Powell was only one to realise her screams were t merely acting.

“So, we're filming, and n thing just starts biting me,” said actress.

“But we're in middle of scene, and I'm supposed to be screaming, but n my screaming got a little serious. y thought I was making really serious dramatic choices in a rom-com. This is a disaster to any actor out re. It was terrible. So one cut.

"So I'm just standing re with this spider on my arm, biting me, and I'm screaming, and just everyone's watching. Glen was only one who was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. I think this is a little real’ and we had to cut," she added.