Katie Couric just pulled off an epic parody of Sydney Sweeney‘s viral, but divisive, ad — and Hollywood is all abuzz.
On Thursday, September 25, the veteran journalist, 68, spoofed Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle advertisement in a public service announcement about colon cancer screenings.
“That ad showed how pop culture and a pair of jeans could really shape the cultural conversation,” Couric told People of Sweeney’s campaign. “It was everywhere,” she added. “We thought, ‘Why don’t we ride that horse a little bit longer and have some fun with it?’”
The hilarious PSA opens with Couric lounging seductively in a denim jacket as sultry music plays. As the camera pulls back, viewers see the former Today show anchor wearing a hospital sgown under a denim jacket while lying on a medical gurney, ready for a colonoscopy!
“It was funny for me because I’m a little older than Sydney Sweeney, and I was trying to get the jean jacket to lay just so,” Couric confessed to People.
Couric has long been a champion of colon cancer prevention. Her husband Jay Monahan died from colon cancer at just 42 in 1998, and she’s been on a relentless mission ever since. “I don’t want that to happen to other people,” she told the outlet. “I think of him often, and think of other Jay Monahans that might be out there, whose lives I can potentially I save with this information. So I feel such an obligation and a responsibility to do that.”
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