Sydney Sweeney was again asked about the “good genes” ad from American Eagle and she avoided taking responsibility for it.
Sweeney faced huge backlash for the ad earlier this year when the ad included a pun about ‘good jeans’ and ‘good genes’. Netizens thought it was racist and glorified to have blue eyes and be white, others thought it suited the male gaze and was overly sexual.
The Euphoria Star didn’t address the backlash at the time, and she’s dodging questions about it now.
In a new interview with The Guardian to promote her new film Christy, she argued that she has no control over how people interpret her actions.
“I think the interesting thing is that I’m always myself. I’m always just me. But it’s what other people put on me that’s uncontrollable,” she said.
“Like you’re going to write this article… Then people are going to read it and have their own take. So I try to be as much of me as possible, but it’s always through someone else’s lens,” the Echo Valley star added.
In an earlier interview with GQ, she noted that she was unaware of the backlash over the ad as she was filming the new season of Euphoria at the time.
“It was surreal… it’s not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I didn’t think about it like that. Or anything like that. I just kind of put my phone away,” she told the magazine.
“I was filming every day. I’m filming Euphoria so I’m working 16-hour days and I don’t really have my phone on set so I’m working and then I go home and go to bed. So I didn’t really see a lot of it,” she added.
Sydney’s new movie Christie follows boxer Christy Martin’s personal and professional life. The film has joined the top 12 worst openings of all time for a film showing on more than 2000 screens, per Box Office Mojo. The film has earned $1.3 million over the weekend.
