Sydney Sweeney Isn't Pretty & Can't Act, Some Old Insane Hollywood Producer Lady Claims

If old hag Hollywood producer Carol Baum wants an Internet fight, that's what she's going to get after taking a ridiculous shot at Sydney Sweeney, the 26-year-old actress who was sent to us from the content gods to save Hollywood. 

Baum, who produced Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, said during an interview in front of a live audience that Sweeney is "not pretty" and added that "she can't act," while talking with New York Times film critic Janet Maslin, according to a report from The Daily Mail.

Bold take, Carol. 

Sydney Sweeney (right)visits the LANEIGE Pop-Up at The Grove LA in March. Hollywood producer Carol Baum (left) claims Sweeney isn't "pretty." (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for LANEIGE)

"There's an actress who everybody loves now - Sydney Sweeney," Baum told Maslin. "I don't get Sydney Sweeney. I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney's movie because I wanted to watch it. I wanted to know who she is and why everybody's talking about her," the Hollywood elitist continued. 

"I watched this unwatchable movie - sorry to people who love this movie  - [this] romantic comedy where they hate each other."

Eventually, Baum, who teaches a movie producing class at the University of Southern California, tells Maslin that she asked her students why Sweeney is so popular. 

"I said to my class, 'Explain this girl to me. She's not pretty, she can't act. Why is she so hot?'" Baum continued. 

"Nobody had an answer but then the question was asked, ‘Well if you could get your movie made because she was in it, would you do it?’

‘"I said, ’Well that's a really good question...that's a very hard question to answer because we all want to get the movie made and who walks away from a green light?" Nobody I know. Your job is to get the movie made."

Who the hell does Carol Baum think she is judging Sydney Sweeney like this?

Baum's production credits include working on films with the likes of Melanie Griffith, Dolly Parton, Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas, Steve Martin, Diane Keaton and Martin Short. 

She's not a nobody. She's been around Hollywood. Based on the interviews she's done lately, it doesn't seem like Baum has dementia. 

Don't try to play me here, Carol. 

In a March review for Immaculate, Sweeney's newest movie, New York Times reviewer Manohla Dargis writes, "…(movie director Michael) Mohan and Sweeney together turn a vaguely sketched, potentially iffy character into the kind of heroine whose survival becomes the movie’s very reason for being. Sweeney’s full-throttle performance is crucial in this regard because it smartly exploits her looks, or rather our perceptions of what a wide-eyed, innocent babe is capable of, slyly drawing us in before she goes deliriously, bloodily amok."

Yet here we are with Baum crushing Sweeney and acting like she's a nobody. 

Good try, Carol. 

And Sweeney's not pretty? OK, Carol. 

Sweeney is the Melanie Griffith of current pop culture. Griffith was nominated ONCE for an Academy Award. That came in 1989 in the form of a Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination. Griffith was 31. 

In other words, back off Carol. 

Does Sydney Sweeney survive on just a few hours of sleep a night? (Credit: Getty Images)

Sydney Sweeney turned 26 in September. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)