She is one of Hollywood’s most popular rising young stars and has recently been hailed as evidence that woke culture is on the decline. But now Sydney Sweeney has been harshly criticized by one of Hollywood’s top producers.
“She’s not pretty, she can’t act,” says Carol Baum, whose films include Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
“She’s not pretty, she can’t act,” says Carol Baum, whose films include Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Baum, speaking to New York Times film critic Janet Maslin before an audience of fans after a screening of her 1988 film Dead Ringers, starring Jeremy Irons, held nothing back when she began her criticism of the actress. 26 years.
‘There’s an actress everyone loves right now: Sydney Sweeney.
—I don’t understand Sydney Sweeney. I was watching the Sydney Sweeney movie on the plane because I wanted to see it,” she says of Everyone But You.
“I wanted to know who she is and why everyone is talking about her,” he told Maslin and his audience.
‘I saw this movie that couldn’t be seen. I feel sorry for the people who love this movie. [this] Romantic comedy where they hate each other.
Sydney Sweeney is one of Hollywood’s most popular rising young stars, but she was fiercely criticized by one of Hollywood’s top producers.
The actress starred in last year’s romantic comedy Everyone But You alongside Glen Powell. Baum calls it unwatchable!
Referring to the production class he teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Baum added: “I told my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so good?
“No one had an answer, but then the question came up: ‘Well, if you could make your movie because she was in it, would you make it?’
“I said, ‘Well, that’s a very good question… it’s a very difficult question to answer because we all want to make the movie and who walks away from the green light?’ Nobody that I know. Your job is to get the movie “done.”
Baum has produced 34 films starring the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas and Dolly Parton and last year published a book titled Creative Protaining.
Sweeney, who rose to fame on HBO’s Euphoria, has become one of Hollywood’s hottest prospects, starring in three films in the last six months: Everyone But You, Madame Web and Immaculate.
But she is one of Hollywood’s most talked-about actresses, and Baum’s comments typify the debate that exists among Hollywood luminaries about her acting abilities.
Executive producers Lucas Foster, Carol Baum and Jake Gyllenhaal at the premiere of “The Good Girl” at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood in 2002.
The blonde bombshell looked absolutely stunning while going braless under an avant-garde white top that looked like a sculpture of hands, flowers, plants and fruits at the premiere of Neon’s “Immaculate.”
Sweeney as Cassie in the provocative HBO series Euphoria, which earned her an Emmy nomination.
Sydney Sweeney, 26, at the Los Angeles premiere of her film Madame Web in February.
An article in DailyMail.com last week described how the blue-eyed, curvy corn-fed American blonde has become a cultural phenomenon, her brazen sexuality embraced by America’s conservative right as proof that woke culture is dying, if not already dead.
Hailed by Republicans as the model of a cultural shift away from political correctness long overdue, an incredulous headline in one of Canada’s largest newspapers, the National Post, asked: “Are Sydney’s Double D Breasts?” Sweeney harbingers of the death of awakening?”
Sweeney produces her own films and is set to star in Marvel’s blockbuster Spider-Woman, as well as set to remake Jane Fonda’s unabashedly libidinous 1968 sci-fi action film Barbarella.
Baum’s 1988 film, Dead Ringers, starred Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold.
At the event, held at the Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, New York, last week, Baum also revealed that while producing the 2007 comedy-drama You Kill Me, starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni, he had to personally intervene to stop the Oscar-winning actor Kingsley. ordering the crew to call him ‘Sir Ben’.
New York Times film critic Janet Maslin from her profile Xhttps://twitter.com/janetmaslin?lang=en
Kingley was knighted in 2002.
Baum recalls: “The team was against it, so I called his agent, who is a friend of mine, and said, ‘What are we going to do? “We have to force him to stop doing it.”
‘Chris Andrews, [Kingsley’s agent], called Ben and said, “Stop this nonsense, stop doing this, you’re alienating everyone” and stopped. And then when she finished the movie, she did it again.
Janet Maslin added that she also had a similar experience with Kingsley: “He insisted on being called Sir Ben on something and that was just ridiculous, but they made me do it anyway.”
Baum has 34 films under her belt, including the iconic films Working Girl and The Shining, which she developed as a film executive.
She is married to playwright Tom Baum.