Sydney Sweeney is not harping on her now-controversial American Eagle ad campaign.

“I am there to support my movie and the people involved in making it, and I’m not there to talk about jeans,” Sweeney, 27, told Vanity Fair in a Thursday, September 4, profile, ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Christy. “The movie’s about Christy, and that’s what I’ll be there to talk about.”

Sweeney stars as the titular Christy Martin in the forthcoming biopic about the ’90s-era boxer.

Ahead of the movie’s release, Sweeney was named the face of American Eagle’s denim collection. An August campaign featured the double entendre tagline, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Genes,” that many fans believed promoted eugenics. (Eugenics is a widely discredited theory about the improvement of hu

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