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Sydney Sweeney threw a bunch of cold water on the idea that Hollywood is interested in female empowerment. She called the supposed movement “fake” and “disheartening.”
The 27-year-old, who has seen her career take off since she began acting in the HBO teen drama Euphoria in 2019, was asked about the controversy that arose back in April when a female producer said she is “not pretty and can’t act.”
“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,” Sweeney responded in a new interview with Vanity Fair.
“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 s— that they say behind everyone’s back.
“I mean, there’s so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it,” Sydney 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. I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?”
Among the many projects Sydney Sweeney has coming up over the next few years are the Paul Feig-directed adaptation of The Housemaid, for which she will be paid $7.5 million. Sweeney will also appear in the film Eden with Ana de Armas and Vanessa Kirby, portray boxer Christy Martin in a biopic, and star in a remake of the campy 1960s sci-fi film Barbarella.