Sydney Sweeney claims Hollywood’s message about women supporting women is ‘fake’

Sydney Sweeney has debunked the entertainment industry’s message about female empowerment.

It comes after a female producer in Hollywood allegedly disparaged the Everyone But You star’s physical appearance and talent earlier this year.

“It’s very disheartening to see women tearing down other women, especially when women who are successful in other areas of their industry see young talent working very hard – hoping to make their dreams come true – and then trying to get any work done to bash and discredit. that they did,” the 27-year-old told Vanity Fair as part of the Hollywood issue.

“All the people say is this whole industry is ‘Women empowering other women.’

‘Nothing happens.

“It’s all fake and a cover for all the other nonsense they say behind everyone’s back.”

The two-time Emmy Award nominee said there are “so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it.”

“I’ve read that we’ve grown up all our lives — and it’s a generational problem — believing that only one woman can be at the top,” Sweeney said.

‘There is one woman who can get the man. There’s one woman who can be, I don’t know, everything.

“So then everyone else feels like they have to fight each other or put that one woman down instead of saying, let’s all lift each other up.

“I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m just doing my best here. Why am I being attacked?”

In April, Carol Baum, producer of Father Of The Bride and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, criticized Sweeney while speaking to a New York Times film critic before a screening of her 1988 film Dead Ringers.

During the conversation, Baum reportedly referenced the production class she teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, saying, “I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me.’ She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’.”

A representative for Sweeney later told the PA news agency: “How sad that a woman who is in a position to share her expertise and experience would choose to attack another woman instead.

“If that is what she has learned in her decades in the industry and sees fit to teach it to her students, it is shameful.

“To unfairly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character.”

Sweeney, who rose to fame in HBO’s Euphoria and The White Lotus, recently starred in Madame Web opposite Dakota Johnson and Everyone But You with Glen Powell.

The 26-year-old also starred in the music video for the Rolling Stones single Angry which was released last year and described the experience as “the greatest thing ever”.

Appearing in black leather on a red convertible as it drove along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Sweeney appeared at the world premiere of the British band’s album Hackney Diamonds.