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Alright, here’s the full part of Sydney Sweeney’s interview where she talks about politics and how people use her and project things onto her that are NOT true: I: You’ve become a kind of lightning rod online in that people project their fantasies, their frustrations, and their politics onto you. When did you first realize there was Syd, the person, and Sydney Sweeney, the discourse topic? S: Honestly, it started with Cassie. I play a lot of characters that make questionable decisions or where it’s complicated to like them. People project some of that onto me. But that was scratching the surface of what I’m dealing with now, with people creating their own narratives that serve their purposes, their headlines, their clickbait. I: To that end, you’ve been at the center of a lot of culture war conversations without actually saying very much. S: It’s definitely not a comfortable thing to have people saying what you believe or think, especially when that doesn’t align with you. It’s been a weird thing having to navigate and digest, because it’s not me. None of it is me. And I’m having to watch it happen. I’m online and I see things, but I’m slowly pulling myself away. It’s definitely gone to a level where it’s just not healthy for me to digest it all. I: If you could ask the internet to retire one narrative about you forever, what would it be? S: That I’m a hateful person. I: There is a charged nickname that has stuck to you on social media: “MAGA Barbie.” I see it in Instagram comments constantly. How do you understand this label given that you’ve been private about your politics? I: I’ve never been here to talk about politics. I’ve always been here to make art, so this is just not a conversation I want to be at the forefront of. And I think because of that, people want to take it even further and use me as their own pawn. But it’s somebody else assigning something to me, and I can’t control that. I: Why not correct it if it’s not true? Where is the line for you? S: I haven’t figured it out. I’m not a hateful person. If I say, “That’s not true,” they’ll come at me like, “You’re just saying that to look better.” There’s no winning. There’s never any winning. I just have to continue being who I am, because I know who I am. I can’t make everyone love me. I know what I stand for. I: Is there anything about your values as a person, not party affiliations but values, that you wish people understood about you more clearly? S: I’ve always led with love. I’ve always believed that love is love in every single form. You should be kind to whoever you meet. I remember on the set of Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, I watched Brad Pitt sit and hang out with the transpo department. I absolutely loved that, and I was like, “Yeah, you have to respect everybody in your life.” I: One thing that does seem like a clear line for you: You don’t speak to your fans directly about your political beliefs. You’re not the first celebrity to be called out for this—Taylor Swift famously grappled with how much of her personal politics to disclose before speaking out. Do you think you’d ever change your mind about doing the same? Is there a future in which people will get to see what you believe, politically? S: No. I’m not a political person. I’m in the arts. I’m not here to speak on politics. That’s not an area I’ve ever even imagined getting into. It’s not why I became who I am. I became an actor because I like to tell stories, but I don’t believe in hate in any form. I believe we should all love each other and have respect and understanding for one another. I: There are a lot of theories about how you are actually a genius mastermind who understands the internet better than anyone gives you credit for, and you are using this understanding to succeed and build businesses. Does that feel true to you? S: I think that they underestimate my strengths, but they overestimate how much control I have over a narrative.