{"id":276671,"date":"2025-11-11T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276671\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:07:08","slug":"sydney-sweeneys-actual-movie-by-suzy-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276671\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney\u2019s Actual Movie – by Suzy Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe criticism of the content was basically that, maybe specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn\u2019t joke about genetic superiority.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how GQ reporter Katherine Stoeffel recently summarized<\/a> the controversy surrounding Sydney Sweeney\u2019s American Eagle jeans ad<\/a>\u2014in which the actress, swathed in denim, schooled us in genetics. Stoeffel was interviewing Sweeney, who is the cover girl of the magazine this month and on the press tour for her new movie, Christy. The journalist said<\/a> she wanted to give the actress an \u201copportunity\u201d to respond to the idea that, by saying<\/a> \u201cgenes are passed down from parents to offspring,\u201d while zipping up her pants, she was giving white nationalists a wink.<\/p>\n

Sweeney did not take that opportunity. \u201cI think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear,\u201d she said. Cue another meta-media meltdown<\/a>. People are aghast that she hasn\u2019t apologized for how other people interpreted the ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe criticism of the content was basically that, maybe specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn\u2019t joke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-276671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}