Sydney Sweeney ‘is not pretty and she can’t act’ declares top Hollywood producer Carol Baum, calling her movie Anyone But You ‘unwatchable’

She’s one of Hollywood’s hottest young rising stars – recently hailed as evidence that woke culture is on the decline. But now Sydney Sweeney has been harshly criticized by one of Hollywood’s top female producers.

“She’s not pretty, she can’t act,” claims Carol Baum, whose films include Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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, Baum held nothing back as she began her criticism of the 26-year-old actress.

“There’s an actress that everyone loves right now: Sydney Sweeney.

‘I don’t understand Sydney Sweeney. I watched 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,” she told Maslin and her audience.

‘I’ve seen this unwatchable movie – sorry to people who like this movie – [this] romantic comedy where they hate each other.’

Sydney Sweeney is one of Hollywood’s hottest young rising stars, but she’s been harshly criticized by one of Hollywood’s top female producers

The actress starred alongside Glen Powell in the romantic comedy Everyone But You last year. Baum calls it unwatchable!

Referring to the production class she teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Baum added, “I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so pretty? ?”

‘No one had an answer, but then the question was asked, ‘If you could get your movie made because she’s in it, would you do it?’

‘I said, “Well, that’s a very good question… that’s a very difficult question to answer because we all want the movie to get made and who’s running away from the green light? No one that I know. It’s your job to get the movie.” made.”

Baum has produced 34 films starring Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas and Dolly Parton and published a book last year called Creative Producing.

Sweeney, who found fame in HBO’s Euphoria, has become one of Hollywood’s hottest prospects, starring in three films in the past six months: Everyone But You, Madame Web and Immaculate.

But she is one of Hollywood’s most talked-about actresses, with Baum’s comments typical of the debate raging among Hollywood stars about her acting skills.

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 as she went braless under an avant-garde white top that resembled 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 detailed how the all-American blonde with blue eyes and corn-fed curves has become a cultural phenomenon, with her unapologetic sexuality embraced by the American conservative right as proof that woke culture is dying is, if not already dead.

Hailed by Republicans as the poster child for a long-awaited cultural shift away from political correctness, an incredulous headline in one of Canada’s largest newspapers, the National Post, asked: “Are Sydney Sweeney’s Double-D Breasts Harbingers of Death from watchman?’

Sweeney produces her own films and is tipped to star in the Marvel blockbuster Spider-Woman and is about to make a remake of Jane Fonda’s brutally salacious 1968 sci-fi action film Barbarella.

Baum’s 1988 film Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold

At the event, held last week at the Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, New York, Baum also revealed that while producing the 2007 dramatic comedy You Kill Me, starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni, she had to personally intervene to Oscar-winning actor Kingsley. of ordering the crew to call him ‘Sir Ben’.

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin from her X profile https://twitter.com/janetmaslin?lang=en

Kingley was knighted in 2002.

Baum recalled, “The crew objected, so I called his agent, who is a friend of mine, and I said, ‘What are we going to do? We need to make sure he stops him from doing this.”

‘Chris Andries, [Kingsley’s agent], Ben called up and said, “Stop this shit, stop this, you’re alienating everyone” and he stopped. And after the movie was over, he went back to it.”

Janet Maslin added that she also had a similar experience with Kingsley: “He insisted on being called Sir Ben for something and that was just ridiculous, but they made me do it anyway.”

Baum has 34 films to her name, including the iconic films Working Girl and The Shining, which she developed as a film director.

She is married to playwright Tom Baum.