Sydney Sweeney comments on conservative politicisation of her appearance

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Following the Euphoria star’s appearance on Saturday Night Live earlier this month, right-wing commentators declared that “Wokeness is dead”, while Canada’s National Post asked: “Are Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke?” The Post writer Amy Hamm argued: “We’ve spent years being chastised for desiring or admiring beauty – because beauty is rare and exclusionary, and to exclude is to hate – or so we’ve been scolded to accept by today’s diversity, equity, and inclusion fanatics. Aren’t they?” In a new interview with NME, Sweeney said “there’s not anything I can do” about the obsession with her appearance. “It’s this weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over.” Earlier this month, the White Lotus star’s appearance on SNL drew criticism from viewers for centering some sketches on her body. Did you not see that in The Handmaid’s Tale?’” Sweeney currently stars in the horror film Immaculate, in which she also served as a producer, as devout American nun Cecilia who joins an Italian convent.