Sydney Sweeney slams 'fake' Hollywood grandstanding on 'women empowering other women'

Sydney Sweeney has slammed the 'fake' Hollywood grandstanding about 'women empowering other women,' saying: 'None of it is happening.'

The 27-year-old became a star on the TV shows Euphoria and The White Lotus and is now a reigning nationwide sex symbol .

Last year she and Glen Powell starred in the hit romantic comedy Anyone But You, on which Sydney was also an executive producer.

Now she has joined a fleet of top-flight names like Nicole Kidman , Zoe Saldana and her Euphoria co-star Zendaya on the cover of the Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue .

She was scathing in her interview about the 'successful' women in showbiz who 'bash and discredit' the 'younger' female 'talent' coming up behind them.

'It's very disheartening to see women tear other women down, especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard - hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have - and then trying to bash and discredit any work that they've done,' said Sydney.

'This entire industry, all people say is "Women empowering other women." None of it's happening. All of it is fake and a front for all the other s*** that they say behind everyone's back,' said the Madame Web star.

'I mean, there's so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it. I've read that our entire lives, we were raised - and it's a generational problem - to believe only one woman can be at the top,' she theorized.

'There's one woman who can get the man. There's one woman who can be, I don't know, anything,' the Immaculate actress elaborated.

'So then all the others feel like they have to fight each other or take that one woman down instead of being like, Let's all lift each other up. I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?'

Sydney's upcoming project includes a new movie version of Barbarella, which was previously made into a film starring Jane Fonda.

Barbarella originated as a French comic strip and was then adapted into a 1968 sci-fi movie directed by Jane's first husband Roger Vadim .

The rollicking comedy sees Barbarella face off against a mad scientist with an 'Excessive Machine' that causes death by orgasm.

News broke in late 2022 that a new movie of Barbarella is in the works, with Sydney tapped to portray the leading lady.

Jane has since revealed she is trying 'not to' think about the upcoming film as 'I worry about what it's going to be,' via The Hollywood Reporter .

She argued that the 1968 version made by her first husband 'could have been a truly feminist movie' had the subject been handled differently.