Sydney Sweeney is giving the people what they want by pretending to love Glen Powell
"We talk all the time like, ‘That’s really funny,'" the Euphoria star said of her rumored affair
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2023 may go down in history as the year of the torrid celebrity affair and/or divorce. Ariana Grande and her new beau, the Wicked-ly talented Spongebob Squarepants Ethan Slater, are merely the most recent out-of-wedlock couple to make headlines, but we mustn’t forget about those that came before. 2023 was the year that gave us Scandoval. And a million memes about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Not to mention Taylor Swift and Matty Healy, the short-lived romance of Avril Lavigne and Tyga, and so many divorces.
All of this to say: The People go crazy for celebrities in love—even (especially?) when said celebrities aren’t really supposed to be in love in the first place. And what is an actress like, say, Sydney Sweeney to do but give The People what they want? It’s literally her job! At least, according to Sydney Sweeney explaining away her rumored fling with Anyone But You co-star Glen Powell.
“It’s a rom-com… That’s what people want! Glen and I don’t really care,” she told Variety in a recent, pre-strike interview. And, well, she does have a point. While it might be tempting to argue that the only romance people actually want from their rom-coms is on-screen, recent fervor around Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King’s blue-carpet chemistry and that moment between Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain (not to mention the anti-fervor around those awkward Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher photos) proves otherwise.
To hear Sweeney tell it, despite the pair’s undeniable chemistry and since-denied rumors that the Reality star was the cause of Powell’s split from ex-girlfriend Gigi Paris, the pair are really just good friends. “We have so much fun together, and we respect each other so much; he’s such a hard worker, and I’m a hard worker. We’re excited for the press tour, and I literally just left ADR with him,” she said. “We talk all the time like, ‘That’s really funny.’”
It sounds like, for an actor who has often been subject to misogynistic narratives beyond her control, there’s a certain level of power in actually driving the discourse for once. “They want it… It’s fun to give it to ’em,” she said.
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This seems a bit like Don’t Worry Darling, where speculation about the behind-the-scenes drama is a lot more interesting than what will, no doubt, turn out to be a deeply unwatched and unloved film.
Why won’ she pretend with me?!
Because of those things you did to kittens on camera.
Man that was MESSED up, I saw that and couldn’t sleep for a week, and to this day ANY time I see a blue highlighter, kitchen strainer or pool noodle I get shivers down my spine.
Also can I volunteer as tribute and date Ms Sweeny, she’s delighful.
Delete this. There’s still time. We can just pretend it never happened.
I see “Scandoval” and I’m like, “What’s going on with Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval?” because I stopped growing as a person looong ago.
Nah, you’re not by yourself on that one. That’s the person/band that’s gonna come to mind anytime I see that last name.
For people “of a certain age.”
Still do not care about this kind of story. Can’t you get the AI to write them?
Reminder that Glen Powell got his start on the kids’ reality series Endurance, which I only learned recently!
What’s that, a reenactment of Shackleton’s ill-fated South Pole expedition but with children?…oh shit, did I just give some network d-bag an idea?
With TWO strikes going on, no less! Thanks a lot!!!!
You mean to tell me that they might be…
Genius!