Sydney Sweeney’s cameo has been cut from The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie after a string of controversies.
The actress, 28, had been due to feature in a three-minute scene, in which she was styled by Emily Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, yet it was scrapped because ‘it did not work structurally.’
Originally, the scene had featured Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) reuniting with her former Runway colleagues, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) and Nigel Kipling (Stanely Tucci), to save the fashion magazine from imploding amid a scandal.
In a bid for help, they enlisted the help of former Runway assistant Emily who now works at Dior, walking in on her while she was styling Sydney.
That scene no longer makes the final cut but it’s been claimed that ‘the team working on the movie were grateful for her participation, making the decision to remove the bit a difficult one.’
Sydney also did not attend the film’s premiere on Monday. Fans first learnt of Sydney’s involvement with the movie when she was spotted arriving on the New York City set in August.
The plotline for the follow-up to the original 2006 flick reads: ‘As Miranda Priestly nears retirement, she reunites with Andy Sachs to face off against her former assistant turned rival: Emily Charlton.’
Sydney’s removal from the film after she became a political lightning rod when her family’s political views came to light.
Sydney Sweeney’s cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 as been axed amid fears Hollywood has turned their back on star (L-R) Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway at the world premiere in New York on Monday, which Sydney did not attend
It’s been claimed that ‘the team working on the movie was grateful for her participation, making the decision to remove the bit a difficult one’
It was previously revealed that Sydney is a registered member of the Republican Party, having registered in Monroe County, Florida in June 2024.
Speculation over her political leanings began in 2022 when pictures emerged from her mother Lisa’s 60th birthday party with guests wearing red ‘MAGA’ hats reading: ‘Make Sixty Great Again’.
Some were also wearing ‘Blue Lives Matter’ T-shirts in an apparently flippant response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sydney addressed the pictures with a tweet that read: ‘You guys this is wild. An innocent celebration for my mom’s milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions.’
She then told GQ: ‘Honestly I feel like nothing I say can help the conversation. It’s been turning into a wildfire and nothing I can say will take it back to the correct track.’
Last year, left-wing critics spoke out when she appeared in an American Eagle denim campaign with the tagline: ‘Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,’ claiming the ad was pro-eugenics and supported far-Right politics.
Yet she won praise from President Donald Trump, who said ‘Oh, now I love her ad.
‘You’d be surprised at how many people are Republican. That’s one I wouldn’t have known, but I’m glad you told me that,’ he continued.
‘If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.’
Controversy was stirred up once again with her current role in Euphoria, which has seen her take on ‘infancy roleplay’ while acting as OnlyFans model Cassie Howard.
Rising to fame with roles on shows like The White Lotus and The Handmaid’s Tale, Sydney’s career reached new heights when she was cast as Cassie on Euphoria opposite fellow A-list actors Zendaya and Jacob Elordi.
This led to a burgeoning film career with hits like romantic comedy Anyone But You and blockbuster thriller The Housemaid.
But she has suffered pushback on her rise to fame, most notably with her American Eagle ad campaign. In one ad, the actress could be seen buttoning a pair of denim blue jeans while saying: ‘Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My genes are blue.’
Another clip saw the star wearing a denim jumpsuit with a plunging neckline on the front as the camera panned down towards her chest.
‘My body’s composition is determined by my genes,’ she said, and then stopped to add, ‘Hey, eyes up here.’ The camera then jumped back up to her face.
However, it seemed the backlash only had a positive effect on the brand’s profits, as figures published on Wednesday showed it has earned $1.28billion since June.
Wall Street responded after the bell, sending the clothing store’s stock price up 25 percent. The stock is still down 18 percent on the year.
Experts previously told the Daily Mail that the contentious ad was intentionally attention-grabbing.
‘From a PR perspective, what we’re seeing from Sydney Sweeney isn’t a “misstep”‘, Alexandria Hurley, a Las Vegas-based publicist, said.
‘Sydney has flirted with controversy before – from her SNL Hooters skit to her recent Bathwater Bliss collaboration with Dr. Squatch – and rather than walk it back after criticism, she’s leaned further in. That’s not oversight. That’s strategy.’
Sydney Sweeney’s cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been axed after controversy over her American Eagle jeans campaign and ‘infancy roleplay’ on Euphoria
Sydney has stirred up controversy with her current role in Euphoria , which has seen her take on ‘infancy roleplay’ while acting as OnlyFans model Cassie Howard
The Euphoria star would have appeared as herself in a three-minute scene, in which she was styled by Emily Blunt’s character Emily Charlton in the sequel
More recently, her role in Euphoria has drawn controversy for the third season’s sexually charged plotlines. In the series, Sydney’s character Cassie is exploring a career as an OnlyFans model.
Since landing on the box in 2019, the show has been famed for breaking boundaries with its graphic portrayal of teenage drug use, sex and violence.
However, viewers have now claimed that creator Sam Levinson’s ‘disturbing’ and ‘misogynistic’ storylines for the new season have ‘lost the plot’.
In the latest episode, titled America My Dream, fans were appalled by how far Cassie was willing to go, with it being the actress’s most X-rated scenes in her career yet.
The first episode of the show’s third season dropped this month and fans criticized the hyper-sexual depictions of its female characters.
A trailer for the entire season depicts Cassie dressed as a baby in a compromising sexual position.
Megyn Kelly claimed this was ‘sexualizing infancy’ when she analyzed the trailer alongside the hosts of the Ruthless podcast on Tuesday’s Megyn Kelly Show.
‘The truth is – this is sexualizing infancy. That’s what this is,’ Kelly said to her co-hosts while showing an image of Sweeney ‘spread eagle’ on a couch in a baby costume.
She went on to slam fans who defended its content as a ‘pretty common kink,’ even branding Euphoria’s creator, Sam Levinson, as ‘sick.’
As for Sydney, Kelly said she was shocked the actress agreed to the sexual content, referencing another scene from the first episode where she was dressed as a dog and barked for her romantic partner, Nate Jacobs, played by Jacob Elordi.
The following instalment showed Cassie shooting fetish content as an adult baby before posing fully nude.
Levinson took the majority of the heat from the talk show host. Kelly went on to reference reports that some of the actresses on Euphoria were uncomfortable with the amount of nudity.
She accused Levinson of ‘injecting nudity’ into scenes so the actresses would have to take their clothes off.
Kelly speculated that the actresses put up with the excessive nudity because they want to be stars, but noted that some stories have leaked to the press that the women were uncomfortable.
She then slammed Levinson as ‘at a minimum a jerk, and more than likely – a problem.’
Kelly argued that the controversial scenes were an example of ‘Hollywood not understanding at all where the line is,’ adding that most ‘normal people,’ including Sweeney’s fans, will recoil at her dressed as a baby.
Levinson has defended the show, explaining that Sweeney’s sexual scenes were intended to ‘break the wall’ between the audience and the characters.
He said Cassie has ‘got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it.’
‘What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion—the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.’
‘We wanted to capture what she’s trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is.’
Her role in Euphoria has drawn controversy for the third season’s sexually charged plotlines where Sydney’s character engages in ‘dog roleplay’ for OnlyFans
Sydney told The Independent in 2022 that she never felt pushed into doing naked scenes and Levinson welcomed feedback.
‘There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless, and I would tell Sam, “I don’t really think that’s necessary here.” He was like, “Okay, we don’t need it,”‘ she added.
Ahead of its premiere, the third season was torched with early reviews, with the show being labeled as an ‘unhinged disaster’ yet ‘pretty uneventful.’
The season currently holds a 46 percent ‘rotten’ rating on reviews aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes, in comparison to season one and two’s 80 and 78 percent ‘fresh’ score.
