"I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?” Sydney Sweeney has said that the idea of women standing up for each other in Hollywood is “fake and a front”.
READ MORE: Sydney Sweeney doesn’t get why you’re obsessed with her: “I’m just being me” The topic came up in an interview with Vanity Fair relating to an incident earlier this year where veteran Hollywood producer Carol Baum said Sweeney is “not pretty” and “can’t act” and dismissed Sweeney’s hit rom-com Anyone But You as “unwatchable.” In response, a representative for Sweeney said in a statement : “How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman. “If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that’s shameful.
To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character.” Now, Sweeney has reflected on the incident.
“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 said. “This entire industry, all people say is ‘Women empowering other women.’ None of it’s happening.
All of it is fake and a fr.