Sydney Sweeney 'is not pretty and she can't act' declares top Hollywood ... trends now

She is one of Hollywood's hottest young rising stars - recently been hailed as evidence for woke culture being in the decline. But now Sydney Sweeney has been fiercely blasted 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.

Baum, speaking with New York Times film critic Janet Maslin before an audience of fans following a screening of her 1988 film Dead Ringers starring Jeremy Irons, held nothing back as she began her critique of the 26-year-old actress.    

'There's an actress who everybody loves now - Sydney Sweeney.

'I don't get Sydney Sweeney. I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney's movie because I wanted to watch it,' she says about Anyone But You.

'I wanted to know who she is and why everybody's talking about her,' she told Maslin and her audience.

'I watched this unwatchable movie- sorry to people who love this movie  - [this] romantic comedy where they hate each other.'

Referencing the producing 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 hot?'' 

'Nobody had an answer but then the question was asked, "Well if you could get your movie made because she was in it, would you do it?"

'I said, "Well that's a really good question...that's a very hard question to answer because we all want to get the movie made and who walks away from a green light? Nobody I know. Your job is to get the movie made."

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

Sweeney, who rose to fame in HBO's Euphoria, has become one of Hollywood's hottest prospects,

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