Yahoo Lifestyle Sydney Sweeney Calls Out Hollywood Industry’s “Women Empowering Other Women” Stance: “All Of It Is Fake”
Sydney Sweeney 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, the Immaculate star cited the industry’s attitude of “women empowering other women” as untrue.
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“It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down,” Sweeney said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “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,” she said. “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.”
“There’s an actress who everybody loves now: Sydney Sweeney. I don’t get Sydney Sweeney,” Baum said, according to the Daily Mail. “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.”
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