Sydney Sweeney is arguably the most important actress of her generation, for the simple fact that she is talented and beautiful but doesn’t give in to the typical radical-left agenda of hating men and picking political sides.
Still, Sweeney is far from traditional. Her roles are based primarily on sex appeal, especially the character Sweeney plays in the hit show “Euphoria.” Admittedly, I’ve never watched an episode. There is nothing about 20-somethings playing oversexed, drug-riddled teenagers that appeals to me. However, a clip of Sweeney’s character from the most recent season caught my attention because of the stark difference between her and the other woman in the scene.
Sweeney’s character is being dressed down by an older woman on her wedding day. The woman is screeching something about saving for college funds, but her lines are unimportant. It’s the woman’s heavily Botoxed face that steals the focus. It’s the same look you’ve seen on almost every woman aged 28-60 these days. Their foreheads are as smooth as marble and just as stable. They look as if you could put on a pair of socks and slide across their eyebrows like Tom Cruise in Risky Business. But more importantly, there is no emotion.
Her tone and words attempt to convey frustration, annoyance, anger at Sweeney’s character. But her face is incapable of making the muscle movements required to express emotion, because she’s quite literally injected copious amounts of poison into her skin to appear as if she’s never moved her face once in her life.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 15: Sydney Sweeney attends the Los Angeles premiere of Lionsgate’s “The Housemaid” at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 15, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
US actress Sydney Sweeney attends the Apple TV+ premiere of “Echo Valley” at AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York City on June 4, 2025. (Photo by DAVID DEE DELGADO/AFP via Getty Images)
We’ve become so used to seeing women like this that at first it goes unnoticed. It’s only when the camera pans to Sweeney, with her fully free muscle control, that it’s almost jarring. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
Sweeney’s eyelids, eyebrows, and even the dimple on her chin work in unison to contract as she speaks. Still, she barely has to utter a word because her face is spelling out very clearly how she feels. The difference here is that Sweeney, of course, doesn’t have Botox. (ROOKE: Superstars’ Interviews Show Masters Week Way More Than Just Golf)
US actress Sydney Sweeney attends Variety’s 2025 Power Of Women at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on October 29, 2025. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
She’s actually been pretty vocal about not having any work done to her face and body, which is refreshing.
Botox doesn’t make women look younger or better. It just makes them look like they … had Botox. In the age of Kris Jenner buying an entire new face and Kim Kardashian buying several different a**es, maybe Sweeney will bring a cultural revolution that ultimately ends the plastic surgery craze.
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