Sydney Sweeney shared a passionate scene with hunk Michele Morrone as they filmed The Housemaid’s Secret, the sequel to their hit 2025 film. The actors were seen shooting a scene in Hoboken, New Jersey on Wednesday – where Morrone placed a kiss on Sweeney’s forehead. The moment was full of emotion and subtle intensity yet failed to win over certain netizens, who thoroughly ridiculed the scene. ‘I can hear the bad acting from here,’ a commenter wrote. ‘Amazing. Notice how her facial expression doesn’t change in the slightest at any moment, no matter what she’s saying. It’s as if she’s just…reciting the lines. GIVE THIS WOMAN AN OSCAR,’ one posted. ‘The look in her eyes are so dead,’ one posted. Sydney Sweeney shared a passionate scene with hunk Michele Morrone as they filmed The Housemaid’s Secret, the sequel to their hit 2025 film’Find someone to look at you like that,’ one Twitter user wrote. ‘Yessss give us nothing Sydney”Bad acting off,’ another posted. Based on the 2022 Freida McFadden novel of the same name, The Housemaid follows Millie (Sweeney), a live-in housemaid trying to start fresh and leave her past behind.She goes to work for the seemingly polished Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried), who is married to Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar).Things go left, putting Millie in a dangerous position when the Winchesters’ luster begins to chip away.Morrone played Enzo, the brooding landscaper. A logline describes the movie as a ‘seductive game of secrets, scandal and power.’ The erotic thriller was filmed on a modest budget of $35 million and grossed over $400 million worldwide. Talk of a sequel will be of no surprise given the films are based on a book series, yet they came swift and quick months after the movie was released in 2025. Earlier this year Variety reported that a sequel to The Housemaid was in development with Feig at the helm. The aim was to shoot this year so that it can be rushed into theaters by 2027. The intense moment saw Morrone gesture towards himself in a stern manner The actors were filming the sequel in Hoboken, New Jersey on Wednesday Business Insider reported earlier this year that screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine had already finished the script for the sequel by the time The Housemaid was making waves at the box office. Sweeney recently told People, ‘I would love to [reprise the role].”I was such a huge fan of the books, so I would be just as happy as everyone else being able to see more Housemaids come to life and getting to explore more of Millie,’ she enthused.Sweeney added about her character: ‘She’s spicy. She is a fighter. She knows what she believes in and she stands up for it. I love characters like that. I love seeing movies that have just fully embraced female rage.’ Sweeney played the live-in housemaid Millie while Morrone portrayed brooding landscaper Enzo The Housemaid was a major hit when it was released in 2025Director Paul Feig told People co-stars Sweeney and Seyfried’s onscreen chemistry is ‘through the roof.”They are both such powerful talents and work so well off each other that you very quickly get sucked into their onscreen world,’ he shared.The women also served as executive producers on the project.