{"id":115898,"date":"2025-09-05T07:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115898\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:33:06","slug":"sydney-sweeney-shuts-down-american-eagle-question-ahead-of-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115898\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Shuts Down American Eagle Question Ahead Of TIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter becoming the controversial face of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/american-eagle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Eagle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sydney-sweeney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a> hopes a trip north of the border will take some heat off her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 2x Emmy nominee, whose boxing biopic <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christy\" data-tag=\"christy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christy<\/a> premieres Friday at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/toronto-international-film-festival\/\">50th Toronto International Film Festival<\/a>, recently shut down a question about her denim ad as she prepares to promote the film about pro boxer Christy Martin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI am there to support my movie and the people involved in making it, and I\u2019m not there to talk about jeans,\u201d Sweeney told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/sydney-sweeney-christy-interview-american-eagle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vanity Fair<\/a>. \u201cThe movie\u2019s about Christy, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ll be there to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by David Mich\u00f4d, Christy is about the boxer who never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia\u2014until she discovered a knack for knocking people out. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim (Ben Foster). But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it, as she confronts family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on remarkable true events, Christy is a story of resilience, courage, and the fight to reclaim one\u2019s life. The film is Black Bear\u2019s second collaboration with Sweeney, who previously starred in the studio\u2019s horror hit Immaculate, which NEON released domestically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Sweeney\u2019s controversial blue jeans ad, which appeared to be a nod to Brooke Shields\u2019 infamous 1980 Calvin Klein campaign, American Eagle <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad-american-eagle-response-1236476850\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">brushed off the backlash<\/a> in a statement that the ad \u201cis and always was about the jeans.\u201d Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a> also <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/donald-trump-sydney-sweeneys-american-eagle-ads-1236477752\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">endorsed the ad<\/a>, saying, \u201cIf Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After becoming the controversial face of American Eagle, Sydney Sweeney hopes a trip north of the border will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18217,6491,9296,96,9298,36615,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-115898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-american-eagle","tag-celebrities","tag-christy","tag-entertainment","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-toronto-international-film-festival","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}