As Americana’s Director Gets Candid About His Movie Being ‘Gobbled Up By The Zeitgeist,’ Halsey Defended The Film’s Crew Amid Sydney Sweeney Controversy

Earlier this summer, Sydney Sweeney made headlines for a controversial American Eagle campaign . For weeks, this campaign that played on the words jeans and genes has left people talking, as some have said it alludes to the idea of eugenics. While Sweeney hasn’t directly addressed this, PR experts and the people of the internet have. Meanwhile, she had a project come out on the 2025 movie schedule called Americana .

Now, amid all this, the film’s director and one of its stars, Halsey, have opened up about this movie being “gobbled up by the zeitgeist.”

Tony Tost Candidly Wrote About Americana Being ‘Gobbled Up By The Zeitgeist’

It’s important to note that Tost’s post about Americana’s release does not mention Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle controversy. However, his