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Sydney Sweeney has deed backmost astatine a apical Hollywood exec who declared she was “not pretty” and “can’t act,” with Sweeney’s representatives calling the woman’s onslaught “shameful.”
Veteran movie and tv shaper Carol Baum, whose films see Father of the Bride, Fly Away Home and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, claimed that Sweeney is “unwatchable” successful her deed movie Anyone But You.
Sweeney contiguous deed back, with a typical for the histrion releasing a blistering connection to Variety.
“How bittersweet that a pistillate successful the presumption to stock her expertise and acquisition chooses alternatively to onslaught different woman. If that’s what she’s learned successful her decades successful the manufacture and feels is due to thatch to her students, that’s shameful. To unjustly disparage a chap pistillate shaper speaks volumes astir Ms. Baum’s character,” the connection read.
“I don’t get Sydney Sweeney,” Baum told a New York Times writer astatine an manufacture event, according to the Daily Mail.
Baum said that she watched Sweeney’s smash deed rom com Anyone But You connected a caller flight, keen to spot the “actress who everybody loves now.”
“I wanted to cognize who she is and wherefore everybody’s talking astir her. I watched this unwatchable movie – atrocious to radical who emotion this movie – [this] romanticist drama wherever they hatred each other,” she continued.
Baum, who teaches a people astatine the USC School of Cinematic Arts, revealed that she adjacent asked her students to “explain” Sweeney’s occurrence to her.
“I said to my class, ‘Explain this miss to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she truthful hot?’”
She claimed that “nobody had an answer” for her question.
Meanwhile, TMZ reports that Baum feels “regret” implicit her comments aft copping an online backlash from Sweeney’s fans.
“She wishes she ne'er would’ve made her archetypal comments,” the outlet said, “and that crapping connected an histrion similar that successful nationalist usually isn’t her style.”
It’s not the archetypal clip successful caller weeks Sweeney’s been forced to talk out aft her sanction was dragged into the headlines: past month, she risked a insignificant instrumentality backlash erstwhile it was reported that she had signed connected to prima successful the supernatural thriller Day Drinker alongside Johnny Depp.
Depp has been mostly shunned by Hollywood since his precise nationalist tribunal lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard successful 2022.
Fans rapidly took to societal media to explicit their displeasure astatine the anticipation Sweeney’s adjacent movie would spot her co-starring alongside Depp – truthful the histrion herself logged connected to code the speculation.
She batted distant the “rumours” portion besides encouraging fans to alternatively spell spot her existent movie, Immaculate.
Baum whitethorn not person been a fan, but Sweeney’s rom-com Anyone But You has present grossed good implicit $US200 cardinal astatine the worldwide container bureau – a immense instrumentality connected a movie that outgo astir $US25 cardinal to make.
This makes it officially the highest-grossing unrecorded Shakespeare adaptation successful cinema past (it’s loosely based connected the Bard’s Much Ado About Nothing).
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