Sydney Sweeney is responding to online discourse that dubbed her "MAGA Barbie" in the wake of a controversial denim ad.
In a new interview with Cosmopolitan, "The Housemaid" star, 28, hit back at commenters who she said have made assumptions about her political leanings.
"I've never been here to talk about politics. I've always been here to make art, so this is just not a conversation I want to be at the forefront of," Sweeney told the outlet. Many have cast the actress as a conservative, particularly after a jeans ad she shot for American Eagle drew hard criticism from some and was fiercely defended by President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and others. The ad was characterized by some as promoting white supremacist ideology for uplifting her "good genes" (and "good jeans," a play on words) as a blue-eyed, blonde woman.
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"People want to take it even further and use me as their own pawn," Sweeney told Cosmo. "But it's somebody else assigning something to me, and I can't control that."
