Sydney Sweeney slams ‘fake’ Hollywood female empowerment culture: ‘A front for all the other s**t’
Actress Sydney Sweeney has called out Hollywood’s self-professed commitment to female empowerment as “fake”.
The 27-year-old was speaking about women in the film industry and her own experience of tinsel-town hypocrisy.
Speaking on gender politics in Hollywood, Sweeney said it was “disheartening to see women tear other women down”.
She identified those “who are successful in other avenues of their industry” looking down on young female actresses who are “hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have”.
The Euphoria star said some female Hollywood veterans had tried to “bash and discredit” younger performers, all the while professing to do the opposite.
This hypocrisy prompted her to slam the entertainment industry’s own credo of female empowerment as a farce.
“This entire industry, all people say is, ‘Women empowering other women.’ None of it’s happening,” the 27-year-old declared.
“All of it is fake and a front for all the other s**t that they say behind everyone’s back,” she concluded.
The Anyone But You star was likely referencing her own experiences earlier this year when she was publicly ridiculed by a senior female producer.
In April, Carol Baum claimed Sweeney “can’t act” and wasn’t “pretty” enough to be a star.
In the wake of the row, Sweeney said she was “still trying to figure out” her way through Hollywood and was at a loss to explain why she was “attacked”.
Sweeney believes much of the gender hypocrisy in Hollywood can be traced to “so many studies and different opinions” but ultimately blames the “generational problem” of how girls are raised.
Sweeney explains girls are brought up 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.”
“All the others feel like they have to fight each other or take that one woman down” to compete, she continues.
Instead, she hopes to see women, regardless of age or position, “all lift each other up”.
Despite her issues with the movie industry, the 27-year-old has a busy schedule ahead.
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Upcoming projects include starring roles in Ron Howard’s Eden, the thriller Echo Valley, and a turn as female boxer Christy Martin.
The eagerly awaited third season of Euphoria, where Sweeney plays Cassie Howard, remains in production limbo.