How wild Euphoria Sydney Sweeney scene helped Homer Gere in The Shards

Homer Gere says his outlandish sex scene with Sydney Sweeney in “Euphoria” was “really good practice” for his latest role in “The Shards.”Before his starring role in Ryan Murphy’s new series, Gere had a small role in the third and final season of “Euphoria” as an actor who Sweeney’s character seduced with too much exuberance.The scene was “really fun to shoot with Sydney.And it was wild.

It’s a funny scene,” Gere — who is the son of Richard Gere and Carey Lowell — exclusively told The Post in a July 28 interview.In “The Shards,” Homer’s character, Robert Mallory, has a few scenes where he has to enthusiastically dance in front of a crowd. That “Euphoria” sex scene,“did prepare me, a little bit – for doing some of the dancing stuff [in ‘The Shards’] and being pretty out-there,” Homer, 26, noted.Premiering Aug.5 on FX and Hulu, “The Shards” is a teen thriller set in the ‘80s, created by Ryan Murphy and “American Psycho” writer Bret Easton Ellis. Based on Ellis’ novel of the same name, “The Shards” follows Bret (Igby Rigney) – a fictionalized version of Ellis – through his final year at an exclusive California high school, as his wealthy classmates party, have sex, do drugs, and get slain by a serial killer. Bret, who is secretly attracted to men, is fascinated by the mysterious new student, Robert, but also suspects that he may be the killer. Similar to his role in “Euphoria,” Homer said that “The Shards” has “a lot of moments where you just kind of go outside of your body, and you’re doing something that’s really fun and crazy.

You just give yourself to it,” he said. Bret and Robert’s friend group also includes party girl Debbie (Hayes Warner), jock Thom (Graham Campbell), and popular girl Susan (Kaia Gerber – whose mother, Cindy Crawford, was married to Richard Gere from 1991 to 1995).Homer told The Post that his father gave him some key advice, to watch the 1977 movie �...