Sydney Sweeney Calls Out Hollywood's "Women Empowering Women" Stance, Saying "All of It Is Fake"
Sydney Sweeney, best known for her roles in Euphoria, The White Lotus, Anyone But You, and Immaculate is calling out some people in the Hollywood industry who tear another woman down privately while publicly proclaiming they are empowering women.
In a new interview with with Vanity Fair, the actress claimed the industry’s attitude of “women empowering other women” as untrue.
“It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down. 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.”
She continued:
“This entire industry, all people say is ‘Women empowering other women.’ None of it’s happening. All of it is fake and a front for all the other shit that they say behind everyone’s back.”
Sweeney noted that there are “so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it” and said that “it’s a generation 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. I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?”
Earlier this year, producer Carol Baum said at an event that Sweeney was “not pretty” and “can’t act,” adding that her film Anyone But You was “unwatchable.” According to the Daily Mail, Baum said:
“There’s an actress who everybody loves now: Sydney Sweeney. I don’t get Sydney Sweeney. I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney’s movie [‘Anyone but You’] because I wanted to watch it. I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her. I watched this unwatchable movie — sorry to people who love this romantic comedy where they hate each other.”
Baum, who teaches at USC, continued:
“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. But then the question was asked, ‘Well, if you could get your movie made because she was in it, would you do it?’ … That’s a very hard question to answer because we all want to get the movie made and who walks away from a green light? Nobody I know. Your job is to get the movie made.”
That’s really shitty of that lady to say in a public setting. We all have our actors we prefer, and those we don’t care for, but to go so hard on someone is just unnecessary. It’s hard enough to be a young woman, or man for that matter, coming up in Hollywood with all the competition and comparison.
Good for Sweeney for calling out her haters, hopefully it does make the women in Hollywood who really are out to give others a hand up want to reach out and be more supportive of Sweeney and other young actors out there.
via: Deadline