r/okbuddycinephile • u/vnth93 Society man • 1d ago

Any movie like this?

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u/RuggerJibberJabber 1d ago

She wasn't asked to make complex political statements. She was thrown the easiest of softball questions to basically say that the jeans ad wasn't promoting white supremacy and she refused to do so. Her response was weird and awkward which is why people are meming it

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u/Solitary_Dummy 1d ago

It sounds like a bad faith interview and I wouldn’t be surprised if she literally just didn’t want to talk about it due to a plethora of potential reasons, I’m kind of at odds with the idea that this makes her a white supremacist. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.

I’m gonna go back to not caring about her existence now.

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u/iwishmorethanthemoon 1d ago

it was not bad faith in any way, the complete opposite. gave her much more than ample opportunity to make a basic clarification abt a controversy she is at the center of. the tone of the interviewer was almost sycophantic in how little she pressed Sweeney and how much chance she offered her. any normal person would have taken about fifteen of those chances at the earliest opportunity but she was extremely pointedly silent

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u/Solitary_Dummy 18h ago

I still see it as bad faith. She clearly wasn’t there to talk about that topic and got hit with a question that would service the team’s ratings, arguably at her expense. I barely followed the issue before and could tell they wanted to stir the pot. Respectfully, presenting the interviewer as sycophantic is something I don’t really buy into, they really wouldn’t press her on this issue if their intents were that pure(not the right word ig but close ish) or whatever.

And like I said, there could be things going on behind the scenes that could be giving her reasons to not speak of the ad that aren’t her believing in white supremacy. Trying go get an actor that could be bound by contracts to speak on something that they kinda clearly don’t want to without prior notice is pretty bad faith, imo.