Sydney Sweeney Slams Hollywood’s ‘Ladies Empowering Ladies’ Narrative

Sydney Sweeney is annoyed with the hypocrisy within the leisure trade, significantly with the “ladies empowering different ladies” narrative.

In a brand new interview, the actress candidly remarked that the narrative solely holds true in public, however behind the scenes, individuals are all tarnishing one another.

Sydney Sweeney additionally questioned why she had been the topic of criticism in current months, seemingly addressing critics who’ve questioned her performing talents and bodily look.

In a candid Q&A for Vainness Truthful‘s 2025 Hollywood concern, Sydney Sweeney criticized the fashionable notion of ladies empowering different ladies whereas implying that she has seen extra circumstances of ladies bashing the works of different ladies.

“It’s extremely disheartening to see ladies tear different ladies down,” Sweeny instructed the publication. “Particularly when ladies who’re profitable in different avenues of their trade see youthful expertise working actually onerous — hoping to attain no matter goals that they might have — after which attempting to bash and discredit any work that they’ve executed.”

The actress and her workforce lately needed to battle again in opposition to a feminine producer, Carol Baum, who questioned her seems to be and expertise.

Whereas Sweeney did emerge stronger, the expertise made it evident to her that the ladies’s empowerment rhetoric was nothing greater than a façade.

“This complete trade, all individuals say is ‘Ladies empowering different ladies.’ None of it is occurring,” the “Euphoria” star famous. “All of it’s faux and a entrance for all the opposite sh-t that they are saying behind everybody’s again.”

Sweeney additionally sought to clarify why she holds this opinion, linking it to how ladies are sometimes raised to compete in opposition to each other.

She shared, “I imply, there’s so many research and totally different opinions on the reasoning behind it. I’ve learn that our complete lives, we have been raised—and it is a generational drawback—to imagine just one girl will be on the high. There’s one girl who can get the person. There’s one girl who will be, I do not know, something.”

The “Sharp Objects” went on to share that this has made ladies “really feel like they need to battle one another or take that one girl down” fairly than help one another.

She additionally questioned why she has been receiving criticism regardless of nonetheless looking for her footing within the trade.

Sweeney added, “I am nonetheless attempting to determine it out. I am simply attempting my greatest over right here. Why am I getting attacked?”

With season three of “Euphoria” set to renew manufacturing in January, followers of Sweeney can look ahead to seeing her again on the small display screen.

Regardless of having over two years for the reason that final installment to pursue different tasks, Sweeney revealed that she needed to flip down just a few alternatives on account of her dedication to the teenager drama collection.

The actress shared, “There have been positively just a few tasks that I needed to go on as a result of I used to be speculated to be going again to Euphoria.”

Fortunately, now that she’s a producer, she was in a position to sneak just a few of her personal tasks as she had full management over the manufacturing schedule.

“That is how Anybody however You occurred,” Sweeney stated, referencing her romantic comedy film, which dropped in December 2023.

She added, “‘Euphoria’ was supposed to start out filming, and I had one other movie that I used to be speculated to do, however we could not get cleared, and after just a few weeks, I spotted, this isn’t occurring. So I put in full gear to make ‘Anybody however You.'”

In April, high producer Baum made headlines after saying Sweeney “is not fairly” and “cannot act.”

Her remarks went viral prompting the “White Lotus” star to reply, calling the producer’s actions “shameful.”

In keeping with TMZ, a rep for Sweeney blasted Baum, saying, “How unhappy {that a} girl within the place to share her experience and expertise chooses as a substitute to assault one other girl.”

“If tearing down one other girl is what Carol has discovered throughout her many years within the enterprise, and she or he feels it applicable to go that on to her college students, then that is actually shameful,” the rep added. “To unjustly disparage a fellow feminine producer speaks volumes about Ms Baum’s character.”

Different Hollywood hotshots additionally defended Sweeney, as producer Teddy Schwarzman, who labored with the actress on “Immaculate,” emphasised how gifted she is and added that she is “extremely sensible, form and humble.”

Baum additionally shared that she was regretful of her remarks about Sweeney after dealing with backlash.

Regardless of nonetheless seeing herself as an aspiring actress, Sweeney has been snagging a number of roles which have earned her a smile to the financial institution.

The actress is reportedly set to earn a $7.5 million wage for her starring position in Lionsgate’s “The Housemaid.” She may also painting boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic, together with her wage for the position but to be disclosed.

Reaching this level in her profession has include many sacrifices, not simply from Sydney Sweeney herself but additionally from her dad and mom, who relocated nearer to Hollywood to help her goals and ultimately went bankrupt within the course of.

“I knew that I may by no means really fail as a result of, I imply, on a really broad scale, my household did lose every little thing,” Sweeney stated of her dad and mom, per the Each day Mail. “They did break up.”

She added, “Whether or not or not that was due to coming right here, it positively was a catalyst for it. So I knew I had to reach some capability in order that it wasn’t for nothing.”