Sydney Sweeney is looking out Hollywood over its “women empowering other women” motion, claiming the entire concept is an phantasm.
The “Anyone But You” star, 27, spoke in regards to the energy dynamic amongst ladies within the leisure business throughout an interview with Self-importance Truthful for the journal’s 2025 Hollywood Challenge.
“It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down,” she instructed the outlet in an interview printed Wednesday.
“Especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard — hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have — and then trying to bash and discredit any work that they’ve done.”
“This entire industry, all people say is ‘Women empowering other women.’ None of it’s happening,” Sweeney added. “All of it is fake and a front for all the other s – – t that they say behind everyone’s back.”
The “Euphoria” star went on to share her ideas on why some ladies would possibly tear one another down in personal whereas pretending to embrace the virtues of ladies’s empowerment in public.
“I mean, there’s so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it,” Sweeney continued.
“I’ve read that our entire lives, we were raised — and it’s a generational problem — to believe only one woman can be at the top. There’s one woman who can get the man. There’s one woman who can be, I don’t know, anything. So then all the others feel like they have to fight each other or take that one woman down instead of being like, Let’s all lift each other up.”
Sweeney additionally mentioned that she’s “still trying to figure it out” herself, explaining, “I’m just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?”
Girls’s empowerment within the leisure business — or lack thereof — got here up in the course of the Self-importance Truthful interview in reference to the controversy that blew up earlier this 12 months after a veteran Hollywood producer publicly criticized Sweeney’s performing talents and her bodily look.
“There’s an actress who everybody loves now – Sydney Sweeney. I don’t get Sydney Sweeney,” producer Carol Baum mentioned at an April screening of her 1988 movie, “Dead Ringers,” in keeping with Every day Mail.
The filmmaker, whose credit embody “Father of the Bride” and “Shining Through,” instructed the viewers that she watched Sweeney’s 2023 hit romantic comedy “Anyone But You” on a airplane as a result of she “wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her.” Baum referred to as the movie “unwatchable.”
“She’s not pretty, she can’t act,” Baum mentioned of Sweeney.
An adjunct professor at USC’s Faculty of Cinematic Arts, she additionally recalled asking college students in one in every of her courses to “explain” Sweeney’s attraction.
“I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’ Nobody had an answer,” she continued.
Quickly after Baum’s remarks went viral, a rep for Sweeney blasted the producer’s feedback as “shameful.”
“How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman,” the rep instructed The Publish. “If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that’s shameful.”
The rep added, “To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character.”
Baum acquired heaps of backlash on-line and later mentioned she regretted her remarks, telling TMZ that publicly trashing an actor often isn’t her MO.
