Sydney Sweeney Doesn’t Want to Be a Bond Girl

Look who's a feminist all of a sudden...

By Audra Heinrichs | October 28, 2025 | 5:41pm

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Sydney Sweeney Doesn’t Want to Be a Bond Girl

This week, Sydney Sweeney appeared on the cover of Variety. In the accompanying story, the actress and MAGA pin-up spoke on all things showmance with her former co-star and friend, Glen Powell (“Truly the tabloids and journalists just created it and kept going. I think people just truly saw a really beautiful pairing.”); her modus operandi for women (“I hope that I can inspire other women to be confident and just flaunt what they got and feel good because you shouldn’t have to apologize or hide or cover up in any room.”); and how she’s managed Hollywood (“I have to remind myself like, ‘Hey, Syd, you’re actually powerful. Stand up a little taller.'”)

While that last one earned an LOL from me, Sweeney’s answer about appearing in an upcoming James Bond film elicited only a concerned pause. You might remember that Jeff Bezos’s Amazon empire bought complete creative control of the Bond franchise earlier this year. As of late, one of the only rumored Bond girls is Sweeney—which would track based on recent headlines: In September, Us Weekly reported that she’ll be launching a lingerie line backed by Bezos and Sánchez “very soon,” plus she was a conspicuous presence at their Venice wedding.

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“I can’t,” Sweeney replied when asked about appearing as a love interest in a new iteration of Bond. The publication notes that she paused for seven seconds.

“I don’t know,” she tried again, followed by another ten-second pause. “To be honest, I don’t know all the Bond rumors, but I’ve always been a huge fan of the franchise, and I’m excited and curious to see what they do with it.”

Naturally, Variety‘s Tatiana Siegel pressed on. Would Sweeney be interested if it were offered? Her answer: “Depends on the script. I think I’d have more fun as James Bond.” I guess between breaking off her engagement from her longtime fiancé, Jonathan Davino, attending the nuptials of oligarchs, bombing at the box office, being outted as a Republican voter, putting her name to new money-making schemes for the male gaze, and attracting justifiable criticism, Sweeney’s suddenly become a feminist! Or, better yet, she’s just found time to espouse 2015 girlboss feminism in that it’s important only when it’s in service to her own narrative as either hero or victim in every story. Oh, sorry. I forgot that Sweeney has also begun her Oscar campaign for Christy, in which she stars as professional boxer Christy Martin.

Of the characters she’s gravitating toward lately, Sweeney said: “I play a lot of very divisive characters, and I think that a lot of people think they know me, but they don’t. So when people think, ‘Ah, she’s a sex symbol,’ or ‘She’s leaning into that,’ I’m like, ‘No, I just feel good and I’m doing it for myself and I feel strong.’”

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