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This is nit picking for sure but she is a part of the ensemble on those prestige shows, not the main face like Zendaya. Also isn’t Madame Web the only big budget movie she’s been in? Again, not the star, and it tanked. I guess she was in a 25 million dollar romantic comedy that became a hit, but I’d never heard of it until today.

Her celebrity feels a bit like early Lindsey Lohan’s sans Mean Girls.

I always get her confused with Shawnee Smith.

Sydney Sweeney, I never saw season 1 of "White Lotus" and don't really know wtf "Euphoria" is/was (though the kids loved it, iirc, as peak transgressive teen fare), but those were her two big credits, right? She was a big-enough name, at least at the time, to go viral for ... having a birthday party with Trumpy relatives or something? And she was in that rom-com that people mocked this past ... I don't even know when it was out. Days ago? Weeks ago? Months ago? I'll be honest, her co-star in that (who I guess kept popping up on SNL), I don't know where the fuck he came from, either. He was barely clothed for most of the trailer for that movie and he looked like he was grown in a lab. Now he seems to be everywhere, too, but I looked at his credits and aside from being in "Top Gun 2" (I assume often shirtless there, too) I don't know anything else he's done, either.

President Keyes, I assume you are joking about Aubrey Plaza, right?

No. She was known to Parks and Rec viewers and comedy people but she didn’t get to do things like host SNL until after White Lotus.

It's kind of amazing Aubrey Plaza wasn't on SNL until last year. I just looked and Nick Offerman has never done SNL. Neither has Chris Pratt. Aziz did it back in 2017, apparently. I almost googled to see if Amy Poehler ever hosted.

I never watched Parks & Rec, but the internet apparently thinks I need to see a thousand clips of her being weird on Conan O'Brien's show. She is delightfully weird. I don't know if she is a good actor or whatever, but when she given the opportunity to just be bonkers, it is quite something

She's pretty good in White Lotus 2, in a more serious role. She was also one of the better/funnier Hot Ones guests, iirc.

Aubrey Plaza didn't become a really big star until these last few years, but those of us who were onboard with Parks & Rec. from day 1 were all like "finally..."

In some ways she was like '90s Parker Posey, like "Indie Famous" or something...

It's like the discussion about Jean Smart over on the streaming thread: She was always awesome, but it took a long time for a lot of people to realize it.

I wonder what the Venn diagram on people who didn't know who Sweeney was prior to Saturday, but did know who the ding dong from the prior week was. I had to Google him after the announcement to figure out why it was controversial, and afterwards "Oh yeah, that idiot..."

They had another Euphoria actor host earlier this season. One even more obscure than Sweeney imo.

I'm visiting my 74-year-old mom right now, and yesterday there was a segment about Sydney Sweeney on CBS Sunday Morning, which she watches religiously. My mom said she knew her from The White Lotus, and then remembered she'd also seen her in Reality (the Reality Winner movie on HBO). (She has not seen Euphoria.) Just now, I asked her if she would've recognized the name Sydney Sweeney without seeing her, and she said yes. But she admitted that she is more up on TV/movie celebrities than many people her age. She then told me about how she was in Europe a few years ago and saw Zendaya's face everywhere in some advertising campaign, and she recognized her despite not having seen anything she'd been in.

"It's like the discussion about Jean Smart over on the streaming thread: She was always awesome"

i've always liked her but i do think she's better now and finally getting really choice roles that she didn't get years ago.

also: snl has always had non-famous hosts? like their host from a week ago. who if you didn't follow standup you would never know. or even beloved ayo. if they didn't watch The Bear most people would never know who she was.

they have always had zeitgeist-y stars of one movie or show as host. for the corporate synergy. and lorne pockets the check from a studio and buys another island.

They had another Euphoria actor host earlier this season. One even more obscure than Sweeney imo.

This is probably true. I just asked, and my mom has never heard of Jacob Elordi.

I thought he hosted (if it is that guy) because he was in "Saltburn." And also, I presume, often shirtless.

Shane Gillis is a pretty famous standup, he's coming to Green Bay and the people I know who are going paid an unreal amount for tickets

A funny thing about the Sweeney thing is that when Dakota Johnson hosted in January, she brought up the impending release of Madame Web in her monologue by describing it as "a Marvel movie with me and Sidney Sweeney: it's like A.I. made your boyfriend's favorite film!"

XP I'd literally forgotten about Gillis, but did know Nate Bargatze because he's the "Clean Comedian."

xpost And like AI, it had extra fingers, the limbs didn't look right, and no one bought it.

I've always liked the fact that SNL has zeigeisty stars-of-one-movie-or-show as hosts. Even if its just for corporate synergy, its a more interesting way to run a variety show than just having the hosts always be the 12 Officially Most Famous people that year. Watching old epsiodes, I'm always way more interested when the host is some dimly-remembered face of the moment rather than an A-lister.

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I remember first seeing her in Everything Sucks, that sort of Freaks and Geeks update set in the '90s that only lasted one season on Netflix, then she popped later that year on Handmaid's Tale. Didn't really notice here again until White Lotus, but I guess Euphoria really blew her up. Looking at her wiki page now, she's been in a ton of movies!

She's plenty famous enough for SNL and an obvious up and coming starlet.

Would any of you have thought it strange when heather locklear hosted snl in 1994

there seems to be a lot of dancing around the fact that Sydney Sweeney is hot itt

Seriously

Wasn't Heather Locklear on Melrose Place at the time, and had been famous before that? Just googling it now, it's insane to think that in 1994 that show's 15 million viewers only got it as hight as the 50th most watched show! Reportedly the White Lotus S1 finale got 1.9 million viewers.

don't think "sydney sweeney is famous" and "being famous in 2024 isn't the same thing as being famous in the 80s or 90s" are mutually exclusive statements

You mean heather locklear was on an ensemble show and had been in other things before that? This is extremely skinner_am_i_out_of_touch.jpeg

Seriously

Anyway, I don't think I've seen anything she's been in, but I knew who Sweeney was, which I guess makes her famous enough.

There are only about four people who are genuinely, monoculturally famous anymore. Everybody else is "Oh yeah, I saw him/her/them in that thing last year." In music, it's even worse. Every artist is a cult artist; some cults are just bigger than others. I've never heard a whole Beyoncé song, and I've only heard one Taylor Swift album in full. For me, Aubrey Plaza is the actress from Emily the Criminal, a really good little crime drama. I know she was on Parks & Recreation, but I never watched that show.

Is Sweeney more or less famous than Alexandra Daddario, who was also on the first season of White Lotus, and is also famous for being good looking and for appearing/starring in nothing I've seen?

more

i think

Daddario was pretty famous for her nude scenes in the first season of True Detective.

they should remake Wedding Crashers every year and whoever the new young actors and actresses are should get the parts, and then we'd all know what to watch to be up to date with everything

Extremely more famous xp

An unnamed ilxor messaged me when we were both struggling to continue with ADadd-starring Mayfair Witches to tell me there was a scene where she was running in a tank top. The show was still very bad but they knew who they were appealing to (perverts like us).

Sydney Sweeney was the young lady in the Stones video, right?

Yes

The deep skinner.jpeg is believing that Parks & Rec famous isn't famous, while also believing that SNL famous is.

actual Tom Cruise type famous

Network TV show famous

streaming show famous

In a show that gets gifed a lot famous

The funny thing is that when PK posted that photo earlier I was like, “ok, that’s Sweeney,” but it was actually Aubrey Plaza, who I am mildly more familiar with, but honestly it could be either one of them or anyone else.

(We could also be having this discussion - which is fun, look, I accepted that I’m getting old ages ago - about a young male cis actor)

I brought up the dude from the romantic comedy that Sweeny was in! I have no idea who that dude is or where he suddenly manifested from, but I see his dumb handsome face everywhere.

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wtf the photo above is not aubrey plaza if we are talking about that photo of a blonde woman (who is also not sydney sweeney). It is apparently Sunny Sweeney, and I don't know who that is.

lol sorry

I misread something there, obviously

aubrey plaza is of puerto rican descent and a brunette, for one thing

Glen Powell was maybe the best part of Everybody Wants Some!!*, played John Glenn in Hidden Figures, and is bringing the romcom back...he's basically the new McConaughey!

*Seems to have a good relationship with Linklater: he was also in Apollo 10 1/2 and co-wrote & stars in his next one, coming out in June.