Sydney Sweeney Responds to “MAGA Barbie” Label, Talks Politics

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Let’s be trustworthy:

Sydney Sweeney is generally identified for what she says.

The actress has usually made headlines away from the display screen for what she wears and, now and again, what she does NOT put on.

Earlier this week, nevertheless, the 28-year outdated spoke to Cosmopolitan concerning the launch of her lingerie line SYRN and made some fascinating remarks together with her mouth.

Sydney Sweeney attends Lionsgate’s LA Premiere of “The Housemaid” at TCL Chinese language Theatre on December 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Pictures for Lionsgate)

In the course of the interview,Sweeney was requested about of us on social media speculating about her political leanings … and sometimes incessantly dubbed “MAGA Barbie” on social media.

“I’ve by no means been right here to speak about politics. I’ve all the time been right here to make artwork, so that is simply not a dialog I wish to be on the forefront of,” stated the Euphoria solid member.

“And I believe due to that, folks wish to take it even additional and use me as their very own pawn. However it’s any person else assigning one thing to me, and I can’t management that.”

Sydney Sweeney attends the sixteenth Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom on November 16, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Amy Sussman/Getty Pictures)

Again in July, Sweeney stirred up a fairly absurd controversy when she posed for an American Eagle advert that some folks believed to be racially insensitive.

Sydney stayed principally silent amid the annoying discourse.

She has chosen to principally NOT appropriate assumptions about her.

“I haven’t figured it out. I’m not a hateful particular person. If I say, ‘That’s not true,’ they’ll come at me like, ‘You’re simply saying that to look higher.’ There’s no successful. There’s by no means any successful,” Sydney instructed Cosmo, including:

“I simply should proceed being who I’m, as a result of I do know who I’m. I can’t make everybody love me. I do know what I stand for.”

US actress Sydney Sweeney arrives for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on September 14, 2025. — Sydney Sweeney arrives for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on the Peacock Theatre at LA Dwell in Los Angeles on September 14, 2025. (Photograph by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

Sydney Sweeney is among the finest trying people on the planet.

That’s actually it. We have now no actual follow-up to that sentence.

“I’m within the arts. I’m not right here to talk on politics,” she defined on this new characteristic.

“That’s not an space I’ve ever even imagined moving into. It’s not why I grew to become who I’m. I grew to become an actor as a result of I like to inform tales, however I don’t consider in hate in any kind. I consider we must always all love one another and have respect and understanding for each other.”

Sweeney made the same remark again after the American Eagle advert went viral, stating on the time:

“Anybody who is aware of me is aware of that I’m all the time attempting to carry folks collectively. I’m in opposition to hate and divisiveness.

“Previously my stance has been to by no means reply to detrimental or constructive press, however lately I’ve come to understand that my silence concerning this difficulty has solely widened the divide, not closed it. So I hope this new yr brings extra deal with what connects us as a substitute of what divides us.”