Sydney Sweeney she’s tired of people in her profession tearing women down while pretending to build them up – which she says is most of them.

The entertainment industry’s reputation for “women empowering other women” is a facade, Sweeney, 27, said in Vanity FairHollywood’s show of 2025.

“It’s very disheartening to see women tearing other women down,” she said in the interview, published on November 13. “Especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard – hoping to achieve whatever they dream of. they might have — and then try to unravel and discredit any work they’ve done.”

“This whole industry, all people say is, ‘Women empowering other women.’ None of that is happening,” Sweeney continued. “It’s all fake and a face for all the other s— being said behind everyone’s back.”

This false dedication to women’s empowerment, the star said, can be traced to several sources.

“I mean, there are so many different studies and opinions on the reasoning behind it,” she said Vanity Fair. “We’ve read that all our lives we’ve been raised — and it’s a generational problem — to think that only one woman can be at the top. There is a woman who can take the man. There’s a woman who can be, I don’t know, anything. Then everyone else feels like they have to fight each other or put that one woman down instead of saying, “Let’s all stand up.”

And like a rising star Euphoria The actress is “still trying to figure it out” herself, she admitted. “I’m just doing my best here. Why am I being attacked?”

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The subject of the downfall of women in the industry was addressed in Vanity Fair interview with reference to a producer who publicly criticized Sweeney’s acting skills and physical appearance earlier this year – which a rep for the star called “disgraceful” at the time.

As reported The Daily MailCarol Baum—a veteran Hollywood producer and adjunct professor—discussed the actress at a screening event, saying, “There’s one actress everyone loves right now: Sydney Sweeney. I don’t understand Sydney Sweeney.”

Baum continued to call Sweeney and Glen Powellhis hit rom-com Anyone But You an “unwatchable film”, before revealing that she asked her students to “explain” the actress to her. “I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t play. Why is it so hot?” No one had an answer,” she said, per Daily Mail.

“But then the question came up, ‘Well, if you could make your movie because she was in it, would you?’… It’s a very difficult question to answer because we all want to make the movie and who moves away from a green light? I don’t know anyone, Baum continued. “Your job is to make the movie.”

Following the producer’s comments, a representative for Sweeney spoke up. “How sad that a woman in a position to share her experience and expertise chooses instead to attack another woman,” the rep said in a statement to PEOPLE. “If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and she feels it’s appropriate to teach her students, it’s shameful.”

“To unfairly disparage a fellow producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character,” the statement concluded.