UK newspaper The Times has taken aim at Sydney Sweeney in a new profile covering its interview with the actress weeks before she was swept up in all *that* American Eagle drama.
The profile in question was written by Megan Agnew, and while she attempted to dig deeper into the controversy-magnet that is Sweeney during their 50-minute interview, Agnew claimed that getting anything of substance out of the star was “hard work”.
“[She] put words so carefully one in front of the other that it sometimes felt she was doing everything she could to sound boring,” Agnew wrote. Yikes!
Throughout the profile, Agnew opined that Sweeney’s caginess was because she was “worried about how she sounded”, with repeated mentions of Sweeney “shoot[ing] looks to her publicists on the other side of the room”.
“She pulled as far back from me as she could,” Agnew claimed.
Apparently, it got to the point where Sweeney “exhibited such discomfort about being there for the 50 minutes … that it verged on annoyance”, per Agnew’s account.
But the supposed awkwardness of the interaction didn’t stop there, with Agnew claiming that although Sweeney arrived early for the interview, it wasn’t for the reason she thought.
“Sweeney was early to our interview by an hour (unheard of) when I met her in a Hollywood photo studio.
“I was thrilled — until I realised it was a reflection of her keenness to leave rather than her enthusiasm to arrive,” Agnew wrote. Sheesh.
While the interview took place before Sweeney was engulfed in a scandal that encompassed everything from eugenicist allegations to commentary from the White House, Agnew still prodded for answers about Sweeney’s penchant for controversy.
“None of it’s real,” Sweeney told Agnew of the scores of headlines she’s made in recent times.
Agnew touched on the drama Sweeney caused back in 2022, when she was seen wearing a hat that riffed on President Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again”.
Sweeney’s supposedly right-learning political affiliations reared their head again in the wake of the American Eagle ad, when it was revealed that she is a registered Republican as of June 2024.
“Now I love her ad,” Trump said when he bizarrely weighed in on the furore this week. “You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans.”
Well, I guess if Sweeney can’t make a fan out of Agnew, she at least has Trump in her corner — which, personally, would be the last place I’d want him to be.
Lead images: American Eagle/Instagram and Sydney Sweeney/Instagram
