Don't ask Sydney Sweeney at TIFF about American Eagle controversy

If you see Sydney Sweeney around Toronto this weekend, don’t ask her about her recent American Eagle ad campaign, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” Article content

Sweeney, who is town to promote her boxing biopic Christy at the Toronto International Film Festival, said she won’t be addressing any of the controversy over the advertisements. Article content Article content

“I am there to support my movie and the people involved in making it,” Sweeney told Vanity Fair before touching down in the city. “I’m not there to talk about jeans … The movie’s about Christy (Martin), and that’s what I’ll be there to talk about.”

The film, which premieres Friday, c hronicles pioneering female boxer Christy Martin’s rise as she became America’s most well-known female boxer in the 1990s