Actress Sharon Stone has urged Sydney Sweeney to “take duty” for the controversial nude sports activities betting advert that garnered backlash from the athletic neighborhood.
Sweeney made headlines this month when showing practically nude as a part of a promotional marketing campaign for the sports activities betting platform Novig, sparking accusations from outstanding athletes that the actress was denigrating and sexualizing ladies’s sports activities.
Stone — who starred reverse Sweeney within the third season of “Euphoria” — was requested in regards to the controversy at an occasion in Los Angeles, saying she was a “cheerleader” for ladies’s sports activities.
“I believe that it’s as much as [Sweeney] to take duty for her actions, lower than me to guage her for her actions,” the “Fundamental Intuition” star advised Folks.
“It’s as much as me to be a cheerleader for the ladies who’ve made it via and turn into champions in ladies’s sports activities.”
Stone added that the main focus of ladies’s sports activities shouldn’t be on getting “males’s consideration.”
“We are able to’t denigrate ladies’s sports activities to get males’s consideration to allow them to gamble,” she mentioned.
Sweeney appeared virtually bare within the Novig advert whereas masking herself with sports activities gear and saying the betting platform was “only for sport.”
It prompted fierce backlash among the many sporting neighborhood, together with Olympic athletes like water polo participant Tilly Kearns, boxer Skye Nicolson and swimming champion Ariarne Titmus.
“I can’t describe how infuriated I really feel,” Titmus wrote of the advert on Instagram. “Not solely is it a kick within the face to each girl who has devoted her life to perfecting her craft, however each girl who enjoys sports activities for what it truly is — teamwork, friendship, dedication, excellence, unity.”
For her half, Sweeney subtly addressed the backlash by sharing previous journal covers and advert campaigns by which well-known athletes, together with Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey, had posed provocatively or with little or no clothes.
Novig CEO Jacob Fortinsky additionally hit again on the controversy, saying the platform is “massively supportive of ladies’s sports activities” and the marketing campaign “by no means meant to painting feminine sports activities.”
“Sydney is an actress, the largest film star on this planet. We’re a prediction market targeted on sports activities. That’s the story she was speaking,” Novig mentioned.
It’s not the primary time Stone has weighed in on her co-star’s controversies.
Final 12 months, she defended Sweeney amid backlash over her American Eagle denims advert, saying “it’s okay to make use of what mama gave you.”
“It’s actually okay to make use of each little bit of hotness you will have — proper right here, proper now — and go for no matter that’s,” Stone mentioned on the time.
