Sydney Sweeney ‘isn’t pretty and she can’t act’ claims top Hollywood producer Carol Baum, calls her film Anyone But You ‘unwatchable’

She’s one of Hollywood’s hottest young rising stars – recently hailed as proof that woke culture is in decline. But now Sydney Sweeney has been violently blasted by one of Hollywood’s top female producers.

“She’s not pretty, she can’t act,” claims Carol Baum, whose films include Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Speaking to New York Times film critic Janet Maslin in front of an audience of fans after a screening of her 1988 film Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons, Baum held nothing back as she began her criticism of the 26-year-old actress.

“There is one actress that everyone loves now – Sydney Sweeney.

“I don’t understand Sydney Sweeney. I watched Sydney Sweeney’s movie on the plane because I wanted to see it,” she says of Anyone But You.

“I wanted to know who she is and why everyone is talking about her,” she told Maslin and her audience.

‘I saw this unwatchable movie – sorry to people who love this movie – (this) romantic comedy where they hate each other.’

Sydney Sweeney is one of Hollywood’s hottest young rising stars, but she’s been blown away by one of Hollywood’s top female producers

The actress starred in last year’s romcom Anyone But You alongside Glen Powell. Baum calls it unmanageable!

Referring to the producing class she teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Baum added: ‘I said to my class, “Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?”

‘Nobody had an answer, but then the question was asked: “Well, if you could get your movie made because she was in it, would you do it?”

“I said, “Well that’s a really good question…it’s a very difficult question to answer because we all want to get the movie made and who walks away from the green light? Nobody I know. Your job is to get the film made.”

Baum has produced 34 films with actors such as Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas and Dolly Parton and last year published a book entitled Creative Producing.

Sweeney, who rose to fame in HBO’s Euphoria, has become one of Hollywood’s hottest prospects, starring in three films in the past six months: Anyone But You, Madame Web and Immaculate.

But she is one of Hollywood’s most talked-about actresses, with Baum’s comments typifying the debate raging among Hollywood luminaries about her acting abilities.

Executive producers Lucas Foster, Carol Baum and Jake Gyllenhaal at the premiere of “The Good Girl” at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood in 2002

The blonde bombshell looked absolutely stunning as she went braless under an avant-garde white top that looked like a sculpture of hands, flowers, plants and fruits at the premiere of Neon’s “Immaculate”

Sweeney as Cassie in the provocative HBO series Euphoria, which earned her an Emmy nomination

Sydney Sweeney, 26, at the Los Angeles premiere of her film Madame Web in February

An article in DailyMail.com last week described how the all-American blue-eyed blonde with corn-fed curves has become a cultural phenomenon, her unabashed sexuality embraced by America’s conservative right as proof that the woke culture is dying, if not already death.

An incredulous headline in one of Canada’s largest newspapers, the National Post, hailed by Republicans as the poster girl for a long-awaited cultural shift away from political correctness, asked: ‘Are Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D evidence of the death of wake?’

Sweeney produces her own films and is tipped to star in the Marvel blockbuster Spider-Woman, as well as set to remake Jane Fonda’s cheekily libidinous 1968 sci-fi actioner Barbarella.

Baum’s 1988 film Dead Ringers starring Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold

At the event held at the Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, New York last week, Baum also revealed that while producing the 2007 dramatic comedy You Kill Me starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni, she had to personally intervene to stop Oscar-winning actor Kingsley ordering the crew to call him ‘Sir Ben’.

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin from her X profilehttps://twitter.com/janetmaslin?lang=en

Kingley was knighted in 2002.

Baum recalled: ‘The crew objected, so I called his agent, who’s a friend of mine, and I said, “What are we going to do? We’ve got to get him to stop doing it.”

‘Chris Andrews, (Kingsley’s agent), called Ben and said, “Cut the crap, stop doing this, you’re alienating everyone” and he stopped. And then after the film was over, he went back to doing it.’

Janet Maslin added that she also had a similar experience with Kingsley: “He insisted on being called Sir Ben on something and it was just ridiculous, but they made me do it anyway.”

Baum has 34 films to her credit, including iconic films Working Girl and The Shining, which she developed as a film director.

She is married to playwright Tom Baum.