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Two months and roughly 4,000 social media rants ago, Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad campaign sparked a firestorm of controversy.
The situation got so out of control that even President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance felt the need to intervene.
In fact, almost the only person who No The person who contributed her grain of sand was Sydney herself, but that changed today.
Sydney Sweeney says ‘big jeans’ drama was ‘surreal’
As you probably know, Sydney is currently promoting her new movie. christian.
That’s why he’s been even more ubiquitous than usual in recent weeks, appearing everywhere from late-night shows to the World Series.
But while scouring the media with the energy of a candidate for public office, Sydney deftly dodged the American Eagle topic until a journalist from GQ asked him about it directly in an interview that aired Tuesday afternoon.
In case you’ve forgotten, critics said Sydney’s ad had racist undertones due to its central joke about the quality of her genes (the entire campaign was structured around a pun between genes and jeans that was corny but probably not intended to offend anyone).
Discussing the controversy for the first time, Sydney was mostly dismissive, but deftly avoided saying anything combative or overtly political.
“I did a jeans ad. I mean, the reaction was definitely a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear is jeans. I literally wear jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.” she said.
“The president and vice president talked about the jeans ad. What was that like?” GQKatherine Stoeffel asked.
“It was surreal,” Sydney responded.
When the interviewer stated that Sydney must have felt “grateful” to be defended by “very powerful people,” the actress objected again.
“I don’t think… It’s not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I wasn’t thinking about that, any of that. I just put my phone away. I was filming every day,” Sydney said.
“I’m filming Euphoriaso I work 16 hours a day and I don’t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and go to sleep. So I didn’t really see much of that.”
Sydney should probably write a book on how to discuss sensitive topics without upsetting anyone.
This is probably what all celebrity interviews will sound like in a few years, as both sides of the political spectrum continue to subject public figures to ideological purity tests.
We’re sure Sydney has her beliefs, but she’s also a 28-year-old woman who’s been rich and famous for about 10 minutes.
“I would like to continue being rich and famous” is probably the main one of those beliefs.
