Opinion: 5 Upcoming Sydney Sweeney Projects That I Will No Longer Be Watching
She became a registered Republican just after a certain political figure was convicted of 34 felonies.
Until now, I have assumed that all likeable and successful Hollywood actors are Democrats. To be a talented actor, after all, you must possess empathy. Empathy, grace, and open-mindedness.
These are all traits that Democrats usually champion, or at least pretend to. However, Sydney Sweeney, a talented and likeable Hollywood actor, is a registered Republican. My mind literally cannot compute this. Even more bafflingly, she became a registered Republican just after a certain political figure was convicted of 34 felonies. After the same figure encouraged a deadly attack on the nation’s capital. Make it make sense! Like, does she read the news? Was she brainwashed by all the falsehoods that those AI-created, anti-Democrat TikTok ads were spreading in 2024? Or does she have something to gain from going full MAGA? A nice, juicy tax break, for instance? Until our dear White Lotus O.G. recovers her senses again, I will be boycotting the following movies and series.
Americana
My apologies to Halsey because this upcoming August movie is as much hers as it is Sydney Sweeney’s. In fact, Americana was meant to be Halsey’s big movie break before Maxxxine beat it to theaters. (Halsey plays a short-lived, if impactful, supporting role in Maxxxine.) However, I have enough on my plate this August. Between Weapons, Freakier Friday, Together, and Alien: Earth, I barely have time to put pants on. But I will. Against all odds, I will. Anyway, I wasn’t about to go out of my way to see the slight Western dramedy Americana. Now, I won’t have to.
Movie to watch instead: Maxxxine. It’s stylish and terrifying, and Halsey deserves her flowers!
Eden
Now the Sweeney boycott is getting harder. On the one hand, this Autumn 2025 survival drama was directed by Ron Howard, with an all-star cast featuring Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas, Jude Law, and Daniel Brühl. All of those names together is a cinephile’s fever dream. On the other hand, Eden earned lukewarm to negative reviews after it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also, Ron Howard directed Hillbilly Elegy, so he is not immune to creating cinematic diarrhea. Also, Sydney Sweeney has a significant role in this. I was on the fence about seeing Eden before, but now it will be easier to fall right the heck off that thing.
Movie to watch instead: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, because our new queen Vanessa Kirby is in that one as well, and it’s more stylish than you’d expect.
Christy
I did not know who Christy Martin was until I heard that Sydney Sweeney had grown biceps to play her. Sadly, I will also continue to not know who Christy Martin is, because I will no longer see this 2025 biopic about the boxer. Tbh I wasn’t going to anyway, since I’ve been afraid to watch movies about female boxers ever since seeing Million Dollar Baby.
Movie to watch instead: Love Lies Bleeding. If you like Sydney Sweeney with biceps, just wait until you see Katy O’Brian with biceps.
The Housemaid
OK, this one is actually going to be tough. Literally all of my bibliophile friends and their mothers have read The Housemaid and are frothing at the mouths to see Paul Feig’s 2025 adaptation of it. From what I understand, the story is pulpy fun, and Amanda Seyfried has a juicy role. Ugh, why couldn’t Sydney Sweeney’s voter status have come out after this movie’s premiere?? On the bright side, her character is apparently loathsome in this story, so if anyone happens to cross picket lines and see this movie, then they might at least feel some meta satisfaction.
Movie to watch instead: Read the book!
Euphoria Season 3
I would love to be a fly on the wall of the recent reunion of Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Maude Apatow, and Hunter Schafer as they went out in L.A. amid filming Season 3 of Euphoria. Schafer is trans and Sweeney apparently supports a party that is taking away trans people’s rights; and now, the two have to work together. That drama is almost better than anything that Euphoria Season 3 could ever concoct, given that all of the characters are practically in their 30s now. What’s the A-storyline now? Rue has to contend with lower back pain? Count me out!
Series to watch instead: Blade Runner 2099, which similarly stars Schafer and which, at this rate, will probably premiere before Euphoria.
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