{"id":63246,"date":"2025-08-13T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63246\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:48:06","slug":"alien-earths-sydney-chandler-explains-her-side-of-the-variety-cover-story-incident-sydney-chandler-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63246\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Earth\u2019s Sydney Chandler Explains Her Side of the \u2018Variety\u2019 Cover Story Incident | Sydney Chandler | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Chandler<\/a> is sharing her thoughts on the happenings that went down with Variety last month.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know, she was supposed to appear on the magazine\u2019s cover with her Alien: Earth co-star Timothy Olyphant<\/a>, as well as the creator of the show, Noah Hawley. However, she did not end up appearing.<\/p>\n

In Variety<\/a>\u2018s own words, here\u2019s what supposedly happened, in their eyes: \u201cOne day before the shoot, though she had agreed to be photographed, Chandler made it known (through reps) that she wasn\u2019t willing to participate in the kind of video interview that is the standard ask at Variety \u2014 as at other publications. Prolonged negotiations continued until the morning of the shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n

They continued: \u201cAt first, one of Chandler\u2019s reps voiced the actor\u2019s concern about playing a game with \u2018two older men\u2019 (in other words, her co-star and showrunner, who are, respectively, 57 and 58). The game, the comic test \u2018How Well Do They Know Each Other?,\u2019 seemed innocuous to us \u2014 everyone from Ariana Grande<\/a> to Ryan Reynolds<\/a> to Daniel Craig<\/a> has done it in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Variety noted they sent her a list of sample questions, and she apparently sent a list of ones she did not want asked. The site continued, \u201cWe don\u2019t ever offer question approval, and there\u2019s good reason why: \u2018How many \u2018Alien\u2019 films are there?\u2019 was high on Chandler\u2019s list.\u201d<\/p>\n

The site shared that she ended up saying no again, then yes the morning of the shoot, and then she didn\u2019t end up participating. Variety even included the text her publicist apparently sent, which read: \u201cNo. She is not coming. Spoke to her just now. Her stylist and glam are not responding. She\u2019s also very sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, in her own words, Sydney is explaining her side of what happened.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

Sydney, who is the daughter of Friday Night Lights\u2018 Kyle Chandler<\/a>, told EW<\/a>, \u201cIt was really unfortunate. I really wanted to be there for the photo shoot, and I was ready to talk anything and everything Alien. I did not know at the time it was a dealbreaker, to [not] do a game and personal question thing. Again, new to this; I haven\u2019t done something like that before. I felt uncomfortable doing something like that. Unfortunately, I was uninvited from the rest of the shoot. I never meant to offend.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a nebulous industry to try and explain to people who aren\u2019t on the ground in it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m figuring this world out. I\u2019m figuring out how much of my personal self I need to give, I want to give, I feel comfortable giving. It\u2019s a really personal journey. So I\u2019m learning a heck of a lot on this press tour. Once this is completed, I\u2019ll have a bit of a foundation and be able to go from there,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Variety also told EW in a statement: \u201cVariety invited Sydney on our cover to celebrate her performance in Alien: Earth. We were clear from the start that our offer included video, and we continued to negotiate with her team through the morning of the shoot to see if she would participate.\u201d <\/p>\n

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