Sydney Sweeney, since her starring position on HBO’s “Euphoria,” has labored to show that she has extra to supply than simply her appears to be like.
The “White Lotus” actress has diversified her portfolio lately to showcase her performing expertise and has flexed her muscle tissues as a producer with the movies “Immaculate” and “Anyone however You.” Despite her efforts, the 27-year-old star says, she believes Hollywood’s outward help of artistic girls — particularly from different girls with established careers — has been lip service.
“Everyone says the entire trade is, ‘Women empower different girls.’ Nothing is occurring,” he mentioned Vanity Fair in an interview printed Wednesday. “This is all false and a canopy up for all the opposite issues they are saying behind everybody’s again.”
Sweeney, founding father of Fifty-Fifty Films, known as out Tinseltown’s alleged faux feminism months after “Father of the Bride” producer Carol Baum dismissed her star energy.
Speaking in April at a New York screening of his 1988 movie “Dead Ringers,” Baum mentioned: “(Sweeney) shouldn’t be fairly, she will’t act. Why is she so attractive?” Sweeney’s staff reacted rapidly, complaining “{that a} lady able to share her experience and expertise chooses to assault one other lady as an alternative.”
“If that is what (Baum) has realized over many years of working within the trade and sees match to show it to his college students, it’s disgraceful,” a spokesperson for Sweeney advised the Times in April. “To unfairly disparage a fellow producer says rather a lot about Ms. Baum’s character.”
Baum reportedly he regretted his remarks, however the ache clearly remained for Sweeney.
“It’s very disheartening to see girls tear down different girls, particularly when girls who’re profitable in different areas of their trade see youthful expertise working actually arduous,” Sweeney mentioned in Vanity Fair’s 2025 Hollywood concern.
This sense of competitors and tendency to discredit and exclude different girls could also be a characteristic of Hollywood and never an issue, Sweeney mentioned. While it might be a “generational drawback,” she mentioned, girls have grown up believing that solely a lady can succeed, whether or not that lady wins over the person or climbs the ladder. “There’s just one lady who will be, I do not know, something,” she added.
Sweeney, who didn’t seek advice from Baum by identify, advised the journal that he’s simply doing his finest to proceed making a reputation for himself. However, she requested, “Why am I being attacked?”
Years earlier than Baum’s insult, the two-time Emmy nominee had been candid about her journey to Hollywood, telling the Times in 2022 that it had been something however straightforward. For some time, he mentioned, he had merely “fought, fought, fought (for the job).” When he started performing as a youngster, the stress of rising up additionally got here with the strain of the trade.
“When you are 16 and you do not actually like your self, and also you’re attempting to determine what the hell is occurring along with your physique and your make-up and your hormones, and folks let you know you are not adequate — that weight is so heavy,” she mentioned Sweeney at the moment.
While Sweeney might not really feel supported by different girls in Hollywood, she advised the Times that she will rely on her mother and father “who, it doesn’t matter what, consider in me.”
Times author Nardine Saad contributed to this report.
