Sydney Sweeney was asked again about that American Eagle “good genes” ad, and she avoided taking any responsibility for it.
Sweeney sparked immense backlash for the ad earlier this year as it featured a pun about “good jeans” and “good genes.” Internet users thought it was racist and glorified having blue eyes and being white, others thought it catered to the male gaze and was too sexual.
He Euphoria The star did not address the backlash at the time and is dodging questions about it at present.
In a new interview with the guardian To promote his new film Christy, he argued that he has no control over how people interpret his actions.
“I think the interesting thing is that I’m always myself. I’m always just me. But what other people put on me is what’s uncontrollable,” she said.
“Like you’re going to write this article… Then people will read it and have their own perception. So I try to be as much like me as possible, but always through other people’s lenses,” the Echo Valley star added.
In a previous interview with GQ, He noted that he was unaware of the backlash over the announcement as he was filming the new season of Euphoria at the time.
“It was surreal… not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I wasn’t thinking about it that way. Or anything like that. I just put my phone away,” she told the magazine.
“I was filming every day. I’m filming Euphoria, so 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 a lot of that,” he added.
Sydney’s new movie christian Follows the personal and professional life of boxer Christy Martin. The film has joined the top 12 worst releases for a movie playing on more than 2,000 screens, according to Box Office Mojo. The film has grossed $1.3 million over the weekend.
