Lionsgate Unveils The Housemaid Trailer Starring Sydney Sweeney

Lionsgate on Thursday released the first official trailer for The Housemaid, a twist-driven thriller directed by Paul Feig that stars Sydney Sweeney as Millie, a young woman who takes a live-in housekeeping job with a wealthy couple and finds herself entangled in secrets and danger. The film is scheduled to open in theaters on December 19, 2025.

The trailer introduces Millie arriving at the Winchester estate and being welcomed by Nina Winchester, played by Amanda Seyfried, who urges her to feel at home. What begins as a seemingly ideal opportunity to escape Millie’s troubled past rapidly devolves into a seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power, with flashes of police encounters, eerie domestic details and suggestive imagery that hint at darker undercurrents inside the household. Brandon Sklenar co-stars as Andrew Winchester, and the supporting cast includes Michele Morrone, Elizabeth Perkins, Megan Ferguson, Ellen Tamaki and Indiana Elle. A rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please appears in the trailer soundtrack.

Feig, whose previous credits include A Simple Favor, directed the adaptation from a screenplay by Rebecca Sonnenshine based on Freida McFadden’s...