Saturday Night Live

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.

Daddario really has not been in very many good things, True Detective and White Lotus aside, but she does have very distinctive eyes.

Sunny Sweeney is a contemporary Country singer.

Google Trends shows more search traffic for Daddario until Season 2 of Euphoria premiered in early 2022, at which point Sweeney overtook her.

it's really about who is showing the most boob on tv at any one time

That’s depressing

I actually mostly know Aubrey Plaza from her talk show interviews. she's very funny.

Her readings of thirst tweets are pretty funny also.

def did not realize Sweeney was famous, and did not get the impression from the Stones video that it starred a famous person. Unlike the Kristen Stewart video, which seemed to be written for Kristen Stewart or at least directed by someone with a sense of her persona.

from what I remember, one of the main things that helped boost Sydney Sweeney's profile was toxic shit on instagram and elsewhere where people were going on and on about her being ugly during the first season of Euphoria; I think she even posted a weepy video about it. There was also a pile on where people accused her of being a Trump supporter because there were some pictures of a family party where her grandfather was wearing a red hat. I don't know that it was ever confirmed that it was a MAGA hat.

Supposedly it was a red novelty hat worn by her mom that said “Make Sixty Great Again." Perhaps it was misinterpreted because there was someone also pictured in the background wearing a Blue Lives Matter shirt, and this was a "hoedown" themed party in Idaho. #context

yeah I mean her family probably sucks, no surprise there. but also, lots of people's families suck. anyway my overriding point in even starting this discussion was that instagram commenters are some of the worst people in the world.

Everyone sucks but ILX commenters, and even *those* assholes ...

The most surprising thing in this run of posts is that anyone is like 'oh yeah, right, the girl from that Rolling Stones video'. The fact that there's a contemporary Rolling Stones video that people are aware of and presumably went out of their way to watch makes me feel more out of touch than anything else under discussion.

I saw it because it was posted here, in the thread about the new album.

I don't think I have ever seen it, but I knew she was in it because I saw some promotion that was like, "the new rolling Stones video, featuring her!" And she was on the hood of a car? Or working at a car wash or something? Or on a billboard?