English transcript

We're sort of talking around this American Eagle ad right now, and maybe we should just

talk about it.

So were you surprised by the reaction?

I did a jean ad.

I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but it was, I love jeans.

All I wear are jeans.

I'm literally in jeans and a t-shirt like every day of my life.

Jeans are uncontroversial.

Jeans are awesome.

I like your jeans.

You look great in your jeans.

I think I know how you're going to answer this, but I'm going to ask anyway.

I mean, the president tweeted about the jeans ad, or truth socialed about the jeans ad,

and that just seems to me like a very crazy moment for anyone.

And I wondered what that was like.

It was surreal.

It was surreal.

And it would be totally human.

I would probably feel like thankful that somebody had my back in public, you know, and conveniently

some very powerful people had my back in public.

And I wondered if you felt that way.

I don't think, I don't think that, it's not that that feeling didn't, I didn't have that

feeling, but I wasn't thinking of it like that, or like of any of it.

I kind of just put my phone away.

I was filming every day.

I'm filming Euphoria.

So I'm working like 16 hour days and I don't really bring my phone on set.

So I work and then I go home and I go to sleep.

So I didn't really, I don't really see a lot of it.

You've made a really good case for keeping your thoughts and your life separate from

that work.

But the risk is that, you know, there's a chance that somebody will get some idea about

what you think about certain issues and feel like, I don't want to see Christie because

of that.

Like, do you worry about that?

No, no.

If somebody, if somebody is closed off because of something they read online to a powerful

story like Christie, then I hope that, I hope something else can open their eyes to being

open to art and being open to learning.

And I'm not going to be affected by that.

Yeah.

You've come here like really willing to talk about this whole discourse that doesn't have

that much to do with you.

And I'm grateful for that.

Did you, is there something that you want to say about the ad itself?

The Sydney Sweeney has great genes.

Do you have...

The ad spoke for itself.

You think the ad spoke for itself.

Okay.

And the criticism of the content, which was basically that maybe specifically in this

political climate, like white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority.

Like that was kind of like the criticism, broadly speaking.

And since you are talking about this, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk

about that specifically.

I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.