Sydney Sweeney comments on conservative politicisation of her appearance

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Sydney Sweeney has commented on the political discourse about her physique.

Following the Euphoria star’s appearance on Saturday Night Live earlier this month, right-wing commentators declared that “Wokeness is dead”, whereas Canada’s National Post requested: “Are Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke?”

The Post author Amy Hamm argued: “We’ve spent years being chastised for desiring or admiring beauty – because beauty is rare and exclusionary, and to exclude is to hate – or so we’ve been scolded to accept by today’s diversity, equity, and inclusion fanatics. We aren’t supposed to admire Sweeney’s beauty; but we’ve done it anyways. The times, they are a-changin’. Aren’t they?”

In a brand new interview with NME, Sweeney stated “there’s not anything I can do” concerning the obsession with her appearance.

Asked if it made her wish to keep off the web, she responded: “Um, no, I think it’s important to be aware of everything and then use that information however I may well. But I’m just being me, that’s all.”

Her comments mirror these she made in an interview with Variety printed earlier this week.

“I see it, and I just can’t allow myself to have a reaction. I don’t know how to explain it – I’m still trying to figure it out myself,” she advised the outlet when requested concerning the viral response to her SNL debut.

“People feel connected and free to be able to speak about me in whatever way they want, because they believe that I’ve signed my life away. That I’m not on a human level anymore, because I’m an actor. That these characters are for everybody else, but then me as Sydney is not for me anymore,” Sweeney stated.

“It’s this weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over.”

Earlier this month, the White Lotus star’s appearance on SNL drew criticism from viewers for centering some sketches on her physique. In one skit, Sweeney portrayed a Hooters waitress who obtained a tonne of suggestions from male clients who discovered her engaging. Meanwhile, a promotional clip for the episode, which additionally featured musical visitor Kacey Musgraves and SNL forged member Heidi Gardner, had Sweeney poking enjoyable at herself and her fan base.

“Weirdly, a lot of my fans are men,” she stated, to which Musgraves replied: “Hmm, I wonder why.”

Speaking to The Independent in 2022, The White Lotus actor stated she believes there’s “a stigma against actresses who get naked on screen”. “When a guy has a sex scene or shows his body, he still wins awards and gets praise. But the moment a girl does it, it’s completely different,” she stated.

The two-time Emmy nominee additionally admitted the way it “bothers” her that almost all of the eye surrounding her efficiency is targeted on her nude scenes. “I’m very proud of my work in Euphoria. I thought it was a great performance. But no one walks about it because I got naked,” she stated.

“I do The White Lotus and all of a sudden critics are paying attention. People are loving me. They’re going, ‘Oh my God, what’s she doing next?’ I was like, ‘Did you not see that in Euphoria? Did you not see that in The Handmaid’s Tale?’”

Sweeney presently stars within the horror movie Immaculate, by which she additionally served as a producer, as religious American nun Cecilia who joins an Italian convent. Immaculate hits theatres within the US on 22 March.