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!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
She's plenty famous enough for SNL and an obvious up and coming starlet.
― dan selzer, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:24 (one month ago) link
Would any of you have thought it strange when heather locklear hosted snl in 1994
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
there seems to be a lot of dancing around the fact that Sydney Sweeney is hot itt
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:35 (one month ago) link
Seriously
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:41 (one month ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:44 (one month ago) link
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
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:45 (one month ago) link
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:47 (one month ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
more
i think
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:55 (one month ago) link
Daddario was pretty famous for her nude scenes in the first season of True Detective.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:55 (one month ago) link
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
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:00 (one month ago) link
Extremely more famous xp
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:07 (one month ago) link
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).
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:07 (one month ago) link
Sydney Sweeney was the young lady in the Stones video, right?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:09 (one month ago) link
Yes
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:09 (one month ago) link
The deep skinner.jpeg is believing that Parks & Rec famous isn't famous, while also believing that SNL famous is.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link
actual Tom Cruise type famousNetwork TV show famousstreaming show famousIn a show that gets gifed a lot famous
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:13 (one month ago) link
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)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:22 (one month ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:24 (one month ago) link
(xpost) 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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:26 (one month ago) link
lol sorry
I misread something there, obviously
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:27 (one month ago) link
aubrey plaza is of puerto rican descent and a brunette, for one thing
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:28 (one month ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:29 (one month ago) link
Daddario really has not been in very many good things, True Detective and White Lotus aside, but she does have very distinctive eyes.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:30 (one month ago) link
Sunny Sweeney is a contemporary Country singer.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:30 (one month ago) link
Google Trends shows more search traffic for Daddario until Season 2 of Euphoria premiered in early 2022, at which point Sweeney overtook her.
― jaymc, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:31 (one month ago) link
it's really about who is showing the most boob on tv at any one time
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:33 (one month ago) link
That’s depressing
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:36 (one month ago) link
I actually mostly know Aubrey Plaza from her talk show interviews. she's very funny.
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:42 (one month ago) link
Her readings of thirst tweets are pretty funny also.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link
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.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:49 (one month ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:53 (one month ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:59 (one month ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:01 (one month ago) link
Everyone sucks but ILX commenters, and even *those* assholes ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 17:03 (one month ago) link
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.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
I saw it because it was posted here, in the thread about the new album.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link
X-post - Yes! I was so confused when ppl were talking about that video as if that's why she's famous.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:29 (one month ago) link
we're all turning into bob lefsetz
― intheblanks, Monday, 4 March 2024 17:49 (one month ago) link
Lefsetz definitely knows who Sydney Sweeney is...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:00 (one month ago) link
<Only because of that Stones video and maybe Mr. Skin>
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:01 (one month ago) link
There were also news stories where she denied that she was objectified by the Rolling Stones.
― President Keyes, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link
i cannot imagine running through glenn powells cv and not mentioning maverick?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:27 (one month ago) link
The whole thing was just kind of sad.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:27 (one month ago) link
daddario is famous for lightning thief guys keep *up*
also aubrey plaza famous for scott pilgrim but only glam glam sex symbol the last few years iirc
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:29 (one month ago) link