Sydney Sweeney is selling underwear, not ideology—at least, that’s the plan. On the heels of box office hit THE HOUSEMAID, a buzzy lingerie launch, and a divisive year in the spotlight, the 28-year-old sits down with COSMOPOLITAN to talk about what it means to keep choosing visibility in 2026.
On SYRN, her new line of intimate apparel:
“This can be how I communicate to my audience. I want to show women that we can take back our power and fully free ourselves….I want SYRN to stand for the power of choice….This is me reclaiming my body and my narrative and using it to empower other women.”
On her decision not to comment on controversy:
“Those aren’t my values, but I feel like I’ve never needed to correct people who don’t know who I am.”
On having to explain how boobs work:
I got slammed for what I wore in Anyone But You. Everyone was dragging me and I’m like, “Guys. When you have boobs that are heavy and not fake, if your top doesn’t fit perfectly, it’s going to ride up. I feel like I’ve had to explain how boobs work for forever now. I’ve dealt with this my entire life. I don’t ever want a girl to feel like I did after everyone came at me for a ’fit I had no control over.
On being at the center of a lot of culture war conversations without actually having said very much:
“It’s definitely not a comfortable thing to have people saying what you believe or think, especially when that doesn’t align with you. It’s been a weird thing having to navigate and digest, because it’s not me. None of it is me. And I’m having to watch it happen. I’m online and I see things, but I’m slowly pulling myself away. It’s definitely gone to a level where it’s just not healthy for me to digest it all.”
On remaining private about her politics:
“I’ve never been here to talk about politics. I’ve always been here to make art, so this is just not a conversation I want to be at the forefront of. And I think because of that, people want to take it even further and use me as their own pawn. But it’s somebody else assigning something to me, and I can’t control that.”
On why she does not correct assumptions and where the line is to her:
“I haven’t figured it out. I’m not a hateful person. If I say, “That’s not true,” they’ll come at me like, “You’re just saying that to look better.” There’s no winning. There’s never any winning. I just have to continue being who I am, because I know who I am. I can’t make everyone love me. I know what I stand for.”
On whether there is anything about her values as a person that she wishes people understood about her more clearly:
“I’ve always led with love. I’ve always believed that love is love in every single form. You should be kind to whoever you meet. I remember on the set of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, I watched Brad Pitt sit and hang out with the transpo department. I absolutely loved that, and I was like, “Yeah, you have to respect everybody in your life.”
On whether there is a future in which people will get to see what she believes, politically:
“No. I’m not a political person. I’m in the arts. I’m not here to speak on politics. That’s not an area I’ve ever even imagined getting into. It’s not why I became who I am. I became an actor because I like to tell stories, but I don’t believe in hate in any form. I believe we should all love each other and have respect and understanding for one another.”
On whether it is possible for anyone, even celebrities with publicity machines behind them, to fully control their image anymore, with the way online discourse happens:
“There are millions of people who have access to social media and can dictate a narrative about who you are. I’ve seen so many things that have gone viral that are so fabricated about me. People believe it, and there’s no correcting them. So I don’t think it’s possible, sadly.”
On women in the industry who have given her advice on navigating this visibility:
“I have some amazing women in my life. Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Sharon Stone, Maude Apatow, Jamie Lee Curtis. They’ve all really shown up for me in beautiful ways. They have been great rocks to lean on.”
On how she decides whether to keep a romantic relationship private or go public:
“I was in a relationship for a very long time, for seven and a half years, and I never talked about it. I was very private. No one would ever see us. I think it’s important to have some things for myself. I understand that I’m a public person, but I’m still in my 20s. I’m still figuring out love, and it’s hard to do that with millions of people who have their own opinions of what that looks like. At the same time, for all of my 20s, I put my head down and focused on work—and now I want to experience things. But it’s hard deciding that I want to experience love in the public eye. I’m just navigating it all.”
On how she meets people as a famous person:
“I don’t know. After I had a few months of just crying my eyes out, I asked all my friends, ‘How do I do this?’ I’ve never dated before. I’ve never even used a dating app. My friends who aren’t in the industry are like, ‘We’ll just go out and meet someone.’ But I can’t just meet someone at a bar. It doesn’t work like that.”
[Photo Credit: Morgan Maher for Cosmopolitan Magazine]
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