"KATHERINE STOEFFEL: We're sort of talking around this American Eagle ad right now, and maybe we should just talk about it. Were you surprised by the reaction? SYDNEY SWEENEY: I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I'm literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life."
"SYDNEY SWEENEY: I don't think. It's not that I didn't have that feeling, but I wasn't thinking of it like that, of any of it. I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day. I'm filming Euphoria, so I'm working 16-hour days and I don't really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep."
Sydney Sweeney starred in an American Eagle jeans advertisement that included dungaree wordplay referencing her "good genes." Conservatives amplified complaints that the spot evoked notions of white genetic superiority. President Donald Trump and the vice president publicly praised Sweeney for the ad, prompting widespread attention. Sweeney described the presidential response as surreal and said she was largely unaware of the online reaction while filming Euphoria. She said she kept her phone away on set and focused on long workdays. When asked whether potential political fallout could affect audience perceptions of her character, Christy, Sweeney said she did not worry.
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