Sydney Sweeney’s rep blasts ‘shameful’ Hollywood producer Carol Baum for ‘attack’ on looks, acting: ‘How sad’
nypost.comCarol Baum claiming the actress is “not pretty” and “can’t act.”“How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman,” a spokesperson for the “Madame Web” star told The Post on Wednesday.“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.
To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms Baum’s character,” they added. The rep’s response comes after Baum reportedly said at the Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, NY, last week, “She’s not pretty, she can’t act.
I don’t get Sydney Sweeney.”Baum, whose work includes “Father of the Bride” and “Shining Through,” claimed Sweeney’s hit romcom “Anyone But You” opposite Glen Powell is “unwatchable.”“I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her,” Baum reportedly told the audience.“I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me.
She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’” she said, recalling a conversation she had with her students at The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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