As Sydney Sweeney ‘s next film, The Housemaid, is set to hit American theatres this December 2025, VOICE OF ASIA delves into understanding who is this young woman who seems to be creating a furore everywhere by just being herself.
Before we go into why some people are getting their panties in a twist over a girl just doing her thing, let us find out more about Sydney Sweeney.
A determined young girl set to achieve stardom, she started auditioning at the age of 12 and got her first role in a zombie movie. The ambitious young girl went to Los Angeles at the age of 14 to study acting while studying, even graduating as valedictorian at her high school.
She continued acting while straddling business school, and started her career in small acting roles in Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, and Pretty Little Liars, eventually graduating to bigger roles in Everything Sucks! And Sharp Objects. She had a role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as one of the Manson gang, and eventually gained fame in the HBO series Euphoria and The White Lotus and the semi erotica Voyeur.
“My parents were wonderful in encouraging my imagination and creativity and that has helped me keep an open mind on life,” she was once quoted.
Her passion for mixed martial arts and her hobby of restoring vintage cars – she even has a TikTok account to show others how to do it – makes her an interesting, relatable person; which is probably why American Eagle chose her to be their model for the ad that has gone viral for many reasons: good, and bad.
Good for American Eagle, because it was highly profitable for them. Well, they sold a lot of jeans.
Bad, because we saw the ugliness of racism and woke leftism rearing its unnecessary head to spout unnecessary division, as seems to be the trend these days.
An ad of a famous beautiful young blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl in jeans with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has Great Jeans” is cute, no? And should offend no one, yes?
But obviously, not to some who live to be offended by anything.
Critics, mostly identifying themselves as liberal, left-wing or feminist, had a massive outcry. They saw the clever wordplay of “jeans” and “genes” as promoting eugenics and white supremacy. After all, Sweeney is an attractive, blonde, blue-eyed white woman: what other correlation could there be? In this day and age, apparently even puns must be politicised.
Sydney Sweeney shot back, “If I have great genes, that does not mean nobody else has great genes.”
Yup. If someone says I am beautiful, it does not negate you being beautiful too. If someone calls you smart, it does not mean everyone else is stupid. It’s simple logic.
But one that seems lost in a world where there is this growing racism against white people, and somehow putting a blonde haired blue eyed girl in an jeans ad is a bad thing.
So, after a lot of hot air and social media hoo-ha by these critics, Sydney Sweeney just got more popular – Baskin-Robbins resurfaced an ad with Sweeney in pink enjoying a Rainbow Sherbert.
Probably a slap back by companies tired of these woke-ism that goes nowhere, and just serves to divide the community.
And she has attracted support from the Trump administration, she is invited to exclusive events like Jeff and Lauren Bezos’ wedding and multiple high profile Hollywood events, and makes multi-millions from her acting career, her fashion and beauty endorsements – her endorsements of Miu Miu and Armani Beauty to Samsung, Laneige, Ford, and Kérastase, reportedly bring in an estimated $7.5 million annually – and well, her American Eagle ad that is just killing it. Eat your hearts out, haters. Sydney Sweeney has great jeans and genes. And you just need to live with it.
