Carol Baum regrets publicly slandering “Euphoria” star Sydney Sweeney.
The Hollywood film producer told TMZ on Wednesday that she wishes she never said the actress “isn’t pretty” and “can’t act.”
She also told the outlet that “crapping on an actor like that” in public “usually isn’t her style.”
Producer Carol Baum regrets dragging Sydney Sweeney. Carol Baum/Instagram She claimed Sweeney “isn’t pretty” and “can’t act.” HBOExplore More
The update comes one week after the “Father of the Bride” producer made disparaging comments about Sweeney, 26, during a panel discussion in Pleasantville, NY.
“There’s an actress who everybody loves now — Sydney Sweeney,” Baum said after a screening of her 1988 film “Dead Ringers,” per the Daily Mail.
“I don’t get Sydney Sweeney. I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney’s movie [‘Anyone But You’] because I wanted to watch it. I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her.”
“Crapping on an actor like that in public usually isn’t her style,” TMZ’s report read. Getty Images “Why is she so hot?” the producer recalled asking her students.Baum, who is a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, said the romcom that Sweeney starred in and produced was “unwatchable.”
“I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’” she recalled.
The “Madame Web” actress’ rep fired back at Baum in a statement to The Post earlier Wednesday.
“How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman,” Sweeney’s rep told The Post Wednesday. Photograph by Eddy Chen/HBO Baum has produced films like the 1991 comedy “Father of the Bride.” WireImage“How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman,” her rep said in the scathing note. “If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that’s shameful.”
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Sweeney’s fans were also quick to jump to her defense on social media.
“Sydney Sweeney received 2 Emmy nods for acting at age 24 delivered 2 hit films she headlined AND produced at age 26. Carol Baum, with nothing relevant on her resume in 30 years, should sit this one out. P.S. Trash talking the looks of an objectively attractive woman, is low,” one X user tweeted.
Sweeney produced and starred in the 2023 film “Anyone But You.” Getty Images for LANEIGE US She has also received two Emmy nods for her work on TV. glencocoforhair/InstagramAnother person chimed in, writing, “How sad to hear a veteran female film producer Carol Baum criticize Sydney Sweeney for not being pretty! Internal misogyny hides in the least likely places.”
The “Immaculate” star skyrocketed to fame following her turn as Cassie Howard in the hit HBO teen drama “Euphoria.”
She produced “Anyone But You” with her fiancé Jonathan Davino, and the flick, also starring Glen Powell, became the highest-grossing R-rated romantic comedy since 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” per Variety.
