Steve Granitz<\/cite><\/p>\n Over the past year, Sydney Sweeney has starred in two movies and a TV show, and filmed season 3 of one of the buzziest TV shows of the decade. But it\u2019s her personal life that\u2019s become something of a national obsession. In May, she confirmed she had ended her engagement<\/a> with her fianc\u00e9, Jonathan Davino; around the same time, she released a controversial, limited-edition batch of soaps allegedly made up of her bathwater<\/a> in collaboration with the men\u2019s brand Dr. Squatch; then in August, she starred in an ad campaign for American Eagle that ignited a national debate.<\/p>\n In the wake of the discourse, the 28-year-old did not address the backlash directly. Instead, social media commentators led the charge\u2014including President Donald J. Trump. On August 4, Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a> that Sweeney had \u201cthe hottest ad out there,\u201d and then went on to declare that \u201cbeing WOKE is for losers,\u201d among other strange claims.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n TL;DR<\/p>\n Why Is the Sydney Sweeney \u2018Great Jeans\u2019 American Eagle Ad Causing a Social Media Firestorm?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Sweeney has once again become a lightning rod for the intersection of beauty standards and politics.<\/p>\n Now, in an interview for GQ<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Men of the Year issue, Sweeney has finally addressed the reactions to the ad, as well as her thoughts on the president\u2019s statement. \u201cIt was surreal,\u201d Sweeney said when asked about Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n As for the backlash itself, Sweeney said, \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<\/p>\n She went on to say that she wasn\u2019t paying much attention to the discourse at its height because she was working such long hours filming Euphoria.<\/em> \u201cI wasn\u2019t thinking of it like that, of any of it,\u201d she explained. \u201cI kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day. I\u2019m filming Euphoria,<\/em> so I\u2019m working 16-hour days and I don\u2019t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So I didn\u2019t really see a lot of it.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n Celebrity News<\/p>\n The Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun Relationship Rumors, Explained<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n It may have started at the Bezos wedding.<\/p>\n As a refresher, in the ad, Sweeney referenced Brooke Shields\u2019s controversial 1980 Calvin Klein jeans ad with a monologue about genes. The campaign tagline for Sweeney\u2019s American Eagle collaboration was \u201cMy jeans are blue.\u201d On social media, some claimed that Sweeney, who has stayed mum on her political affiliations for her entire career but is rumored to be a registered Republican<\/a>, was signaling a belief in the superiority of her genes,<\/em> specifically blue eyes. The reaction, and then the reaction to the reaction, quickly snowballed on social media and beyond, becoming something of a litmus test for one\u2019s progressive or conservative bona fides.<\/p>\n In her GQ<\/em> interview, Sydney Sweeney danced around this idea that she\u2019s become a political figure, whether she wanted to be or not. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed that I\u2019m not here to tell people what to think. I\u2019m just here to kind of open their eyes to different ideas,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I gravitate towards characters and stories that are complicated and are maybe morally questionable, and characters that are\u2014on the page\u2014hard to like, but then you find the humanity underneath them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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