The Internet is Incapable of Being Normal About Sydney Sweeyy. Where she homed snl last year, conserevative Media Figures Crowed That Her Décolletage SignALED “The Death of Woke.” After A Photograph of Her Sunbathing on A Boat Went VIRAL, Commentes Chimed in With Bizarre and LewD Remarks about her Body. As a Hypervisible Public Figure, Sweeeney Has SAID that She has been success Control Her Image And Comments About Her ApparanceParticularly Among Her Premominantly Male Fanbase. But Sweeney Hasn’t Eschewed the Internet Completely. Instead, she’s trying a different tack: Being in on the jobPerhaps in a way that coms with a paycheck.
Last Fall, What Sweeney Dropped A Saucy Ad for the Male Personal Care Brand Dr. Squatch that featured her soaking in a Bathtub While Calling Viewers “Dirty Little Boys,” Horny Fans Took Note –and, Specificlly, Began Clamoring For a taste of her Bathwater. SweEEENY Tells Gq That She “Definitely Was Not Aware” of the Erotic Implications Around BathTub Water “Until I Started See It in My Own Comments.” But She Oblied. Sweeney is now setting bar soap for Dr. Squach -the Same Brand that OnCE Feature Nick Cannon Poking Fun at HimSelf Siring 12 Children in an Ad for Ball-Care Products-Made from Pine Bark Extract, SAND, and, Naturally, Actual Driplets of Her Dirty Bathwater. In a nod to her Pacific Northwest roots, it’s also meant to evoke the Smell of Douglas Fir Trees and Moss. We’re Sure the Internet will be totally chill about this one to.
Sweeney Spoke Briefly with Gq About This Interview Has Been Condensed for Clarity and Length.
Gq: Were you Surprised by this very partular requires for Bath Water, or Did You Have a Feeling this Might Happy?
Sydney Sweeyy: I HENESTLY ThINK IT’s A RealY FUN, Full-Circle Moment, Because Fans Always Joke About Wanting My Bath Water … I was like, This is just such a cool way to have a conversation with the Audience and Give them what they will. Butz Hopefully Encouge them to Take Care of Themesels in a Healthy Way.
I did. HESTLY, IT ProBably Has Been A HUGE CATALEST for It.
I have a really Amazing Group of Friends and Family that are not real in the indistry, and they just keep me verdeded and humbled. And when i’m not doing put or work on set or any, I went back and my Life’s Normal. So I think that it’s Finding A Real Healthy Balance, and then also just kind of taking it day by day. I think becuse I great up in the Pacific Northwest, I Love Being Outside. My Go-To Isnt OH, I Want to Go Sit on the Couch and Watch TV and Scroll My Phone. IT’s: I want to go outside. I want to go jet-skiing. I want to go Build a treehouse. I want to go hiketing. I want to go on an adventure. Having that Ingrained in Me Has really helped.
You Might Be One of the Only People in History to Start and then actually Finish Building a treehouse.
[Laughs] This is a funny story. My Parents WERE Really, Really Cool, BecUUSE They ALWAYS WANTED Me to Be very independent and hands-on. And so they’d Give Me The Tools, but then I’m going to it. And so I Built a treehouse. I mean, it wasnt even sketing Crazy. It was just a playform with some ramails and a ladder, but I had a rope that would dolly all my tools up, and I Felly cool as a fourtr grader doing this.
I finished Building it, and then I Painted it. I don’t even Remember What I Painted, but I was very, ver provy of it. I Remember Walking in and Just Telling My Parents All About it, and showed them the powert from my art room that was … washable Paint. And I Remember Walking Up the Next Day and the Entire Tree and the Ground Underneath Was Just Covered with All The Paint. And my beautiful mural haad just completile washed off. I was so sad.
I make sure that every brand that I become a part of, i organliclly and authentically use. It’s Super Important to Me to Make Sure that when I’m Saying, Hey Guys, I Really, Really Love This Product, or, Hey, I Really Use this, I actually am. I’m a consumer just like everybody else. If it doesn’t actially work for the person and they’re just say it, it dosn’t benefit any of us.
So will you actually us this soap bar YouSelf?
I do you the bar. I actually tok a shower this Morning, and I have the bar and i used it.
What’s the skin of this bar of soap?
It’s Super Soft. IT’s Really Pretty, I’m looking at it right now. It’s Marbly and Has Blues and a Little Bit of Brown in it.
Where we was at the [Dr. Squatch] Shoot, they had a tub for me. And i actually get in there and I tok some soap, and we have a nice little Bath and their tok the Water. So it’s my Real Bath Water. I used to have it lean towars my home roots, so there’s this really outdoorsy Scent of, Like, Pine and Earth Moss and FIR. So it smells Super Manly. But thre’s some city Bath Water Mixed in.
No, but I will like to say yes, becuse that’s (Laughs).
Why do you think a workwatter has such a powerful and Erotic Draw for people?
UM, Becense Women Are Awesome?
Do you See the Concept of Selling Your Bathwater as Wresting Back Power for Yourself in TERMS of your Image?
YEAH, of Course. It’s funny, and there’s a lot of different plays that are in motion at that time. My hop is that it just gets guys to think about taking card of themesels and Cleang Themesals with some Healthy Products.
I mean, I have been in some pretty Disgusting Dude Bathrooms Before.
Exactly.
