sydney sweeney

It's time.

https://i.imgur.com/zFQPbpi.jpeg

hot ready and legal?

I don't know too much about this person, except I saw her in the one "White Lotus" and, like Glen Powell, she's both pretty and weirdly ubiquitous/talked about a lot, at least to me, considering how little of their works I have seen. But I do recall Sweeney's mom or grandma or something having a party, and people wearing what looked to be MAGA hats, and how Team Sweeney scrambled to say, no no no, that was just a gag, we're not all a bunch of Republicans. And now it's been reported that, pysch, actually she is a registered Republican?

I actually liked her in Everything Sucks, the short-lived Netflix teen comedy set in the '90s. Otherwise I've only ever seen her in Handmaid's Tale and White Lotus and she was just kinda there in both. Never seen Euphoria, but I guess that was her breakout role.

I've seen White Lotus (agreed on her not being v memorable there) and Anyone But You, which was deeply mediocre though I wouldn't blame her alone for that.

would be cool if being a republican and signing up as the poster girl for white supremacy* killed her career but I doubt it

*as much as the "EUGENICS!" accusations are a little ott, am I the only one who now primarily associates the phrase "good genes" with Trump?

She’s good in Immaculate. Everyone is being very weird about the politics they want / imagine her to have.

The optics are bad but I really do believe this is exactly what the ad agency thought they were doing:

https://clickhole.com/addressing-the-backlash-american-eagle-is-clarifying-that-their-sydney-sweeney-ad-was-only-intended-to-make-people-masturbate/

lol of course that was the main concept, but I don't think it's completely off to see the ad reflecting, broadly, a cultural shift. like I'm not suggesting AE was consciously evoking the fact Trump talks about "good genes" all the time, just that it's out there in the atmosphere.

ShariVari: she registered as a Republican in Florida, which moves it out of the imaginary, no? I'm open to this not being even slightly important in the grand scheme of things though, but registering as GOP in Florida in June 2024 is going to rile people up

I do remember that she played up the idea that she was having an affair with her co-star in some romantic comedy in order to get media attention, so I assume everything about this is pretty calculated.

I don't know anything about her, but what an awful position to be in. Assuming she's not a terrible person, imagine being made an unwilling MAGA avatar, and the instant backlash that speaking out would entail.

She was very good in the Handmaid's Tale, which is ironic since she's now a Republican (she registered as such in Florida prior to the general election last year). This entire thing is annoying and exhausting and I think there is truth to both sides of the discourse: that the ad is wink-winking at very problematic cultural and political trends, and that the reaction to it is a little overblown, but I'm pretty certain that was the intention behind the ad. At the same time, people stating that 'no one on the left/dems/liberals actually cares about this' is also false.

It's possible that she is dumb and doesn't understand any of this, which would explain her being a Republican in the first place. I doubt she is going to make a statement one way or the other.

Tbh, the first time I saw the ad I thought mostly that it was just an attempt on a new version of the icky Brooke Shields jeans ad, but they chose really poorly in the ad text. At least Sweeney isn't underage in this one.

She was one of the secondary Manson girls in OUATIH.

I saw on Reddit what I believe was a fake screenshot of an Acyn post featuring a clip of Jesse Watters proclaiming that the endgame was Sweeney marrying Barron Trump and creating the ultimate (White) Power Couple.

I couldn't find a real link, but with everything being what it is, it's ridiculously plausible that Fox News would spin this in the direction that would get BT laid.

just an attempt on a new version of the icky Brooke Shields jeans ad

it is that, with added white supremacy sprinkled across the top. in the end this speaks to how people view culture. I understand that there are people who will watch this and not pick up on the implication of talking about 'good genes'; such implications have become more problematic in recent years due to weird shit like pro-natalists, Musk and Trump etc. If AE had rolled out the campaign with more diverse models I don't think it would have raised such a fuss. The fact that they didn't tells me that someone was probably aware of how this could be received.

I think the fact that Buzzfeed had to go digging around in the voter registration rolls indicates how little she’s been willing to engage with politics to date.

No spoilers but producing, financing and starring in perhaps the most pro-abortion, anti-religious extremism genre film of recent years doesn’t really suggest she’s a MAGA lunatic, but it’s not really anyone’s business when whatever views she may or may not have are kept entirely to herself.

which film would that be

oh, Immaculate.

I knew about the Manson film, but didn't pick up on her being in the Handmaid's Tale at all.

When all I saw was the tagline "good jeans," it seemed like mostly a bad pun. When I actually saw the video ad, with the discussion of genetics being passed down etc., I could understand the minor fuss a bit more. It is still a mostly invented controversy though — like 5 percent actual mad leftists and 95 percent right-wing white men taking the opportunity to protect a pretty white lady (while implicitly leering at her the whole time).

She was very good in the Handmaid's Tale, which is ironic since she's now a Republican (she registered as such in Florida prior to the general election last year).

Maybe not incredibly more ironic than the star and executive producer being a hardcore scientologist.

lol just truly amazing that somehow happened

she was on handmaid's tale in like the second season, it might have been the first thing I ever saw her in. Spoiler: she dies.

The Jesse Watters thing was not fake

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-jesse-watters-shares-strange-fantasy-about-sydney-sweeney-and-barron-trump/

When I actually saw the video ad, with the discussion of genetics being passed down etc.,

this is another aspect that is annoying, because obviously genetic traits can be inherited, but even implying that seems to set some people off and cause them to scream 'eugenics'. one wonders how these people function in high school science classes when they study mendelism. Though the unsavory aspect of it is the 'good' part being purely superficial aspects.

Yeah, I mean you could make the same ad with Zendaya and it wouldn't have the arguable white supremacist undertone but would still be saying "Attractive people are better" in some ways. But also that's an implied message of most advertising and mass entertainment.

I figured the outrage was about what "good genes" are being posited as: Skinny but curvy white blonde straight cis Southern American woman. Not the idea of genetic in and of itself.

eujeanics

She's got a police bike
She's got a turned-up nose

https://i.imgur.com/N0AZ0Oa.png

hahahahaha

I thought she was very good in the one thing one seen her in other than the media circus (The White Lotus s1), btw.

What’s the OP’s image about?

one time there were two nuns birthing the Antichrist movies

she seems to be extremely canny in her decisions around production, control and selling of her work and efforts since breaking out

the jeans genes thing is excruciating to watch from outside the obsession with whether trump said a word once

the jeans genes thing

Jeans Gene-y love chimney stacks

Because I have passing interest in entertainment economics, I sometimes think about a quote I heard from Sweeney in an interview from probably around the time Anyone But You came out: the writer was pressing her about how well-off they felt she should be, and Sweeney countered to the effect of (I paraphrase) "I don't really have that much money. I rent a small apartment in suburban LA. I'm on a couple streaming/cable series with limited runs. I've had a few small roles in some big movies and more big roles in small indies. I'm starting to get big roles in some hopefully big movies, and maybe that will pay off."

Young women actors normally have brief careers, about as short as the average NFL player. It's no wonder if they try to wring the maximum economic benefits from any breaks they get.

Yeah, she hasn't appeared in many high-profile projects--however her media imprint is far bigger than that of a lot of actors who are more 'successful.'

She's taken on <a lot> of brand endorsement/product ambassador gigs. It reminds me a little of Anna Kendrick, who's been the center of a big but wrapped up franchise series, has worked with every major streamer, written a memoir, and done a ton of ads.

lmao at that Don Draper ad. Then Don would spend half a season cheating with her and being mopey about it.

can somebody explain the don draper joke? or is it just "lol random"

I take it as being a spoof a Draper's mystical ad-sense (lol) where he krafts (lol) an ad taking a negative and selling the controversy.

It's meant to indicate he is the one speaking the text above the image, pitching an ad to clients.

I liked Sydney Sweeney in Madame Web

ok theres no need for sarcasm

genuinely tho i did enjoy how the stars just disavowed the whole thing as soon as it was clearly a flop

so WS or no?

Dry your eyes for Madame Web

xp gross and I am dead serious.

it was obviously a joke and a reference to many threads that were on this very site

Wasn't western Idaho trying to annex part of Washington at some point to create a magical white homeland?

There is an organized, active, and unlikely to succeed, movement in the eastern counties of Oregon to be allowed to leave Oregon jurisdiction and join Idaho. As a reason for this drastic realignment the organizers persistently cite that too many Oregonians further west "do not share our values". They are remarkably mum about what exactly those values are.

They are remarkably mum about what exactly those values are

Similar to how Sweeney is now mum about what the beliefs people are ascribing to her that she doesn't hold, and how she can disavow those beliefs without specifying what they are, thereby not disavowing anything at all

But with rise of people like Nick Fuentes who stand on business and aren't mum or coy about anything at all, Sweeneys failure to double down and own it doesn't look like its going to be enough, as even the non-apology viewed as bending the knee to libs

right after trump's election i think these people --- not conservatives, nazis --- felt they were ascendant culturally. "woke is over, it's our turn!" american eagle, to their shame, tried to ride the wave with this ad campaign. luckily i think this cultural moment is over. the trump administration has been a shitshow; these people have nothing to be smug about.

sydney sweeney used poor judgment. she does not deserve to have a thread title that references lindsay lohan that's for sure.

used poor judgment and also is definitely coyly maga. not sure she is full fuentes who knows tho

Things you just don't care about

Really don’t think American Eagle was trying to appeal to white supremacists or those resistant to the woke mind virus. It was a poorly considered pun about her boobs.

isn't it pretty to think so

I feel like the interview where she said "if I care about anything, you'll know" did more damage to her than the ad itself (and the walking back but not really maybe even more)

I really think she saw a lane for being the coyly apolitical maga-aligned celeb, the one who toed the line, but it backfired because the majority of americans do not think that stuff is cool or funny

There is an organized, active, and unlikely to succeed, movement in the eastern counties of Oregon to be allowed to leave Oregon jurisdiction and join Idaho. As a reason for this drastic realignment the organizers persistently cite that too many Oregonians further west "do not share our values". They are remarkably mum about what exactly those values are.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, December 10, 2025 3:19 PM (three hours ago)

lebensraum, presumably

She might have got away with it (will this damage American Eagle?) if she had handled the interview differently, or even just not done it.

But then being an actor is a much more vulnerable position to be in than if she were a singer or athlete

Compare her coyness with her publicity tour buddy Amanda Seyfried, who apparently had this response when asked to apologize for saying Charlie Kirk was hateful or some shit:

“I’m not fucking apologizing for that,” Seyfried said. “I mean, for fuck’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course.

I think this is what Seyfried originally posted, whenever it was that that asshole got shot:

“I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”

isn't it pretty to think so

Not really? I'm a dude with some memories of seeing Iran-Contra hearings on TV, a mall jeans brand's politics aren't really a concern. Big brands don't love being controversial, American Eagle is already present in every mall in suburban America - this isn't a psychotic Black Rifle Coffee of Jeans looking for a niche situation.

given the fact that some 75 million or whatever voted for a guy who was openly spouting Nazi shit I don't really give any of these people the benefit of the doubt. especially given the way the vast majority of corporate America collectively decided to go full MAGA after the election. that said I'm guessing a lot of the people who signed off on this didnt catch the dogwhistle but there had to be some people who absolutely did and probably welcomed the opportunity to be at the center of more dumb culture war bullshit

Amanda Seyfried is great, she is the anti-Sweeney, amazing they're in a film together frankly. I think Sweeney is just dumb, TBH. I don't think she is really capable of forming a coherent worldview which is why she is trying not to say anything.

It does take a certain baseline intelligence/self-awareness to say “this is above my pay grade, I’m not weighing in on that”

There, I think I’ve fulfilled my yearly “say something vaguely positive about someone I have no other opinion on” quota with a few weeks to spare

it all kinds of smells like a publicist waffling in crafting a completely apolitical message when the right thing would be to brush off questions in interviews with "wow, it's crazy that blew up, I just thought it was an ad campaign" or whatever

Yeah, honestly I thought the ad thing (aiui) was totally overblown in that I never would have associated it with a white supremacist message or whatever. But it was a confluence of other stuff, too. There was that MAGA-esque birthday party she was at (for her mom?), plus where she is from, plus the revelation that she is a registered republican, plus the way team MAGA loudly came to her defense (with friends like those ...), plus her silence, and *then* her own mealy-mouthed defense. She could have said, like American Eagle or whoever more did, "Come on guys, we're just selling pants." So I don't know if she's clever or dumb, but she's clearly not smart enough to fire her publicist.

tbf the GOP registration and the birthday party pics were not put out there by Sweeney herself. And I'm not sure the Jeans ad would have caused quite the same ruckus without the MAGA-coding that was attaching itself to her image. I feel like other people, like Katy Perry or Beyonce or whoever, have gotten past "problematic" videos and the like without taking much damage.

She's trying to take the old Taylor Swift approach of not saying anything specific about so that people can project their politics on her from many angles. But in her case it's not really working.

I'd never heard of this knob until the nudge nudge wink wink white supremacy ad. So that she made her name in White Lotus is curious to me because she was by far the least interesting character and actor in that whole series... and that's really saying something when you are sharing the screen with Steve fucking Zahn (and his ugly ass scrotum).

shit I'm making it sound Zahn's scrotum was interesting. Scratch that thought!

think it was more euphoria was her big break?

oh right, that's something completely off my radar

yeah, and The Handmaid's Tale to an extent

so even then she was possibly gaining fans of Handmaids Tale who saw the series as a utopian vision of the US

euphoria was p good imo, worth a watch

xpost p funny that sydney sweeney and elizabeth moss the scientologist were in handmaid's tale.

the genes/jeans thing still sounds like the most middlebrow ad pitch that came out of 1998, or a "clever" caption next to a feature in Maxim magazine or something

Good piece about how her on-screen persona is at odds with her off-screen persona:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/movies/sydney-sweeney-offscreen-image-movie-roles.html

this whole thing kind of reminds me of when everybody was convinced anthony fantano was alt right

how is the Handmaiden? I love Amanda Seyfried so I'm sure I'll watch it at some point.

what is her off screen persona?

she seems fairly completely surrounded by projection from all sides afaict

anyone who registered Republican in 2024 is a bit suspect imo

xpost according to the article her off-screen persona is sexpot/airhead.

SydSwe in an Edith Wharton adaptation wasn't on my 2026 bingo card

https://deadline.com/2026/01/sydney-sweeney-custom-of-the-country-edith-wharton-1236691959/

“Undine Spragg is the original dangerous woman. Edith Wharton’s character has forever fascinated, seduced and infuriated readers,” Rourke said in a release Wednesday announcing the project. “The Custom of the Country was Wharton’s great American novel and Undine Spragg sweeps across America and through Europe at top speed, during a time of immense economic and social change. The book whistles with modernity and as I was writing this adaptation, Sydney Sweeney lived in my head as this iconic character — it’s as if Wharton sat down a century ago and wrote the role for her. I’m thrilled to be working with this luminous actor, Charles Finch, Alison Owen and Studiocanal to bring this novel to the screen.”

I read the book and that quote from screenwriter is not encouraging me to see this, um, 'adaptation'. it sounds like it evolved inside the writer's head into a new and completely different species.

This is a bad casting choice. Sweeney is one of those actors it's impossible to picture without a cell phone close at hand. She cannot convincingly play someone from another time.

how is the Handmaiden? I love Amanda Seyfried so I'm sure I'll watch it at some point.

The Housemaid is the best of the three films Paul Feig released in the last 16 months.

all these projects she signed on for when she was red-hot are now actually gonna be made.

#NotTheOnion

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/sydney-sweeney-bras-hollywood-sign-without-permission-1236641795/

Sydney Sweeney snuck up to the Hollywood sign in the dead of night and covered it in bras without the permission of the proper authorities, the LA Times reports.

TCOTC was originally attached to Sofia Coppola, who would've been a terrific director choice.

xp: I support this.

This is a more fun scandal than the other one

It left out that all the left cups had been cut up.

What? Why? I thought this was viral marketing for a bra company.

*waits*

yeah you can't take stuff like this at face value two weeks before the super bowl. see also: guy fieri's "amazing transformation."

yeah you can't take stuff like this at face value two weeks before the super bowl. see also: guy fieri's "amazing transformation."

― Venus of Willendorf on Golf (jaymc), Tuesday, January 27, 2026 7:19 AM (fifty-six minutes ago)

"guy fieri's amazing transformation" was one of my favorite fictionmania stories back in the day