Hollywood Snubs Sydney Sweeney Over Controversies

has in recent years risen to become one of Hollywood's most successful young stars but the industry now appears to be giving her the cold shoulder after a string of controversies.

Rising to fame with roles on shows like The and , her career reached new heights when she was cast on teen drama . 

This led to a burgeoning film career with hits like romantic comedy Anyone But You and the blockbuster thriller The Housemaid.

But her success has not come without setbacks as it has emerged Sydney's cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been cut ahead of the film's release. 

The actress played herself in a three-minute scene, in which she was styled by 's character, Emily Charlton.

According to EW, Sydney's appearance would have come near the beginning of the movie, but was scrapped because it did not work structurally.

It's the latest blow for the star following a string of headline-grabbing controversies. 

The actress appeared in an American Eagle denim campaign that with critics claiming the ad was pro-eugenics and supported far-Right politics.

In one ad, the Anyone But You actress could be seen buttoning a pair of denim blue jeans while saying: 'Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My genes are blue.'

Another clip filmed the star wearing a denim jumpsuit with a plunging neckline on the front as the camera panned down towards her chest.

'My body's composition is determined by my genes,' she said, and then stopped to add, 'Hey, eyes up here.' The camera then jumped back up to her face. 

Some social media users slammed the campaign and labelled it as 'Nazi propaganda' while  

It seemed the backlash only had a positive effect on the brand's profits, as figures published on Wednesday

Wall Street responded after the bell, sending the clothing store's stock price up 25 percent. The stock is still down 18 percent on the year. 

Experts previously told the Daily Mail that the contentious ad was intentionally attention-grabbing. 

'From a PR perspective, what we're seeing from Sydney Sweeney isn't a "misstep"', Alexandria Hurley, a Las Vegas-based publicist, said. 

'Sydney has flirted with controversy before — from to her recent  — and rather than walk it back after criticism, she's leaned further in. That's not oversight. That's strategy.' 

More recently, her role in Euphoria has drawn controversy for the third season's sexually charged plotlines. In the series, Sydney's character, Cassie, is . 

The first episode of the show's third season dropped this month and  the hyper . 

A trailer for the entire season depicts Cassie dressed as a baby in a compromising sexual position. 

Megyn Kelly claimed this was 'sexualizing infancy' when she analyzed the trailer alongside the hosts of the Ruthless podcast on Tuesday's Megyn Kelly Show.

'The truth is - this is sexualizing infancy. That's what this is,' Kelly said to her cohosts while showing an image of Sweeney 'spread eagle' on a couch in a baby costume. 

She went on to slam fans who defended its content as a 'pretty common kink,' even branding Euphoria's creator, Sam Levinson, as 'sick.' 

As for Sydney, Kelly said she was shocked the actress agreed to the sexual content, referencing another scene from the first episode where she was dressed as a dog and barked for her romantic partner, Nate Jacobs, played by Jacob Elordi. 

The following instalment showed Cassie shooting fetish content as an adult baby before posing fully nude.

Levinson took the majority of the heat from the talk show host. Kelly went on to reference reports that some of the actresses on Euphoria were uncomfortable with the amount of nudity.

She accused Levinson of 'injecting nudity' into scenes so the actresses would have to take their clothes off. 

Kelly speculated that the actresses put up with the excessive nudity because they want to be stars, but noted that some stories have leaked to the press that the women were uncomfortable. 

She then slammed Levinson as 'at a minimum a jerk, and more than likely - a problem.'  

Kelly argued that the controversial scenes were an example of 'Hollywood not understanding at all where the line is,' adding that most 'normal people,' including Sweeney's fans, will recoil at her dressed as a baby.

Levinson has defended the show, explaining that Sweeney's sexual scenes were intended to 'break the wall' between the audience and the characters. 

He said Cassie has 'got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it.'

'What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion—the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.'

'We wanted to capture what she’s trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is.'

Sydney told The Independent in 2022 that she never felt pushed into doing naked scenes, and Levinson welcomed feedback. 

'There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless, and I would tell Sam, "I don’t really think that’s necessary here." He was like, "Okay, we don’t need it,"' she added. 

Ahead of its premiere, the third season was torched with early reviews, with the show being labeled as an 'unhinged disaster' yet 'pretty uneventful.' 

The season currently holds a 46 percent 'rotten' rating on reviews aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes, in comparison to season one and two's 80 and 78 percent 'fresh' score.