After nearly a year, Amanda Seyfried weighed in on her The Housemaid co-star Sydney Sweeney\u2019s controversy. The American Eagle jeans ad, featuring Sweeney, released last July, sparked massive backlash online. Seyfried, who was promoting their film during the peak of the controversy, has words of empathy.<\/p>\n
Sydney Sweeney\u2019s American Eagle controversy gets a response from Amanda Seyfried<\/p>\n
During her recent interview with GQ magazine<\/a>, Amanda Seyfried briefly spoke about the controversy surrounding Sydney Sweeney\u2019s American Eagle jeans ad from July 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a great time on the press tour,\u201d Seyfried said about promoting The Housemaid during the backlash. \u201cWe worked really hard and she seemed to be having fun, but I also understood that probably it can\u2019t be f\u2014ing easy, where she found herself\u2026 I have heard her stand up for herself, but I think she found herself between a rock and a hard place.\u201d<\/p>\n The Mean Girls actress then explained that she supported Sweeney not by discussing the controversy, but by sharing fun and laughter. Seyfried said she did not talk to the Immaculate actress about it unless the 28-year-old wanted to. It was mainly because she did not want to be a \u201csource of anything.\u201d She even praised the Anyone But You actress for surprising her with a birthday cake and gifting her the \u201cmost beautiful bracelet.\u201d<\/p>\n Amid all of this, the 40-year-old actress said that she remained focused on promoting the film as well.<\/p>\n The controversy centered on a 2025 denim campaign by American Eagle featuring the Euphoria star. The campaign\u2019s slogan, \u201cSydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,\u201d sparked major controversy. Many online users believed that it played on the similarity between the words \u201cjeans\u201d and \u201cgenes\u201d. Critics felt the campaign could be interpreted as celebrating \u201cgood genes.\u201d\u00a0Others criticized the ads as relying on traditional beauty standards.<\/p>\n In response, Sweeney had defended the ad by clarifying that it was only about jeans, not genetics. \u201cI did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I\u2019m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life,\u201d she told GQ<\/a> in a November 2025 interview.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Harsha Panduranga on ComingSoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Amanda Seyfried Finally Weighs In on Sydney Sweeney Controversy<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly a year, Amanda Seyfried weighed in on her The Housemaid co-star Sydney Sweeney\u2019s controversy. The American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18251,11265,241437,1741,156,409,111,139,69,142324,3486],"class_list":["post-479890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amanda-seyfried","tag-american-eagle","tag-american-eagle-jeans","tag-controversy","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-seyfried","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}