Sydney Sweeney , the 27-year-old actress who rose to fame with roles in the hit HBO series Euphoria and The White Lotus , isn’t known for making political statements. True, she has signaled support for Black Lives Matter , women’s reproductive rights, and LGBTQ representation in media, but these have been fairly boilerplate statements, sometimes caveated with the reminder that she prefers not to wade into these topics in interviews. It seems that Sweeney is more focused on her work, which makes sense — the entertainment industry has kept her very busy in recent years.

And yet Sweeney has unwittingly become a lightning rod of sorts in the culture wars, an accidental avatar of American pride, or anti-wokeness, or [you fill in the blank], apparently just because she is blond

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