Sydney Sweeney has lost control of her stardom

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"The key to Sydney Sweeney, discourse magnet and actor, used to be Madame Web. It was an infamous disaster of a Spider-Man spin-off in early 2024, famed for flopping, and for its lengthy scenes in which its star a perpetually bemused Dakota Johnson couldn't seem to open a can of Coke. On the film's press tour, Johnson seemed to be mortified that she was headlining such a thing, practically begging audiences not to see it from beneath her trademark fringe."

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