Former Batwoman star Ruby Rose melted down this week about Sydney Sweeney, insinuating that she somehow hates gay people and calling her a “cretin.”
Hollywood’s culture wars are alive and well — and this latest feud between Ruby Rose and Sydney Sweeney is proof that virtue signaling still pays better than humility. The dust-up over Sweeney’s box office flop Christy has sparked more debate about identity politics in film than discussion about the movie itself.
Ruby Rose’s Outburst on Threads
Rose, best known for the laughably unpopular Batwoman and a small role in Orange Is the New Black, blasted Sweeney online after Christy underperformed at the box office — pulling in just $1.3 million on a $15 million budget.
Ruby Rose attacks Sydney Sweeney on Social Media – Threads
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She posted on Threads: “The original Christy Martin script was incredible. Life changing. I was attached to play Cherry. Everyone had experience with the core material. Most of us were actually gay. It’s part of why I stayed in acting. Losing roles happens all the time.”
Sydney Sweeney ads in the American Eagle store in Times Square NYC – Photo Credit: That Park Place
But then came the line that lit Hollywood aflame: “For her PR to talk about it flopping and saying SS did it for the ‘people.’ None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us. You’re a cretin and you ruined the film. Period. Christy deserved better.”
For the record, Sydney Sweeney has never once commented on the LGBT community in any negative way or implied that she “hates them.”
The Context Behind the Feud
Rose’s accusation seems rooted not in anything Sweeney has said or done publicly, but in reports from The Guardian and others that Sweeney registered as a Republican in Florida. Sweeney has never confirmed, denied, or discussed her voter registration. Still, that hasn’t stopped Hollywood’s self-appointed gatekeepers from drawing their own conclusions.
Sydney Sweeney American Eagle Ad – YouTube, American Eagle
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The idea that an actress’s personal politics — real or rumored — should determine who can portray whom has become a recurring theme in modern entertainment. Unfortunately, it often drowns out the actual art.
Sydney Sweeney Responds with Grace to Christy Box Office
Rather than engage in a mudslinging matches with the countless progressives touting the film’s performance, Sweeney kept her focus on the message of Christy itself.
She wrote on Instagram: “We don’t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact. And Christy has been the most impactful project of my life.”
She continued: “This film stands for survival, courage, and hope. Through our campaigns, we’ve helped raise awareness for so many affected by domestic violence.”
And finally: “If Christy gave even one woman the courage to take her first step toward safety, then we will have succeeded.”
It’s a dignified response — the sort of thing you’d expect from someone uninterested in playing politics, even as others drag her into the spotlight.
The Politics of Hollywood Casting
Rose’s comments illustrate how deeply political Hollywood has become. The notion that a performer’s alleged voting record disqualifies them from a role is a symptom of an industry obsessed with purity tests.
Ruby Rose in Batwoman – CW
In the end, the real issue isn’t whether Sweeney registered with a particular party — it’s that someone felt entitled to weaponize that rumor for moral credibility points. Hollywood doesn’t need more division; it needs better scripts and better box office results.
What This Reveals About Modern Hollywood
The Ruby Rose Sydney Sweeney drama shows what happens when ideology becomes more important than storytelling. Audiences aren’t rejecting films because of who’s in them — they’re rejecting films that lecture them.
Sydney Sweeney ads in the American Eagle store in Times Square NYC – Photo Credit: That Park Place
Sweeney, for her part, seems determined to keep making work that matters to her. Rose’s public anger, by contrast, highlights a mindset increasingly out of step with what moviegoers actually care about: authenticity, not activism.
Final Thoughts
Rose may genuinely have felt attached to an earlier version of Christy, but accusing Sweeney of “hating” anyone based on politics that she’s never expressed crosses into absurdity.
Ruby Rose as Batwoman – CW
If anything, the outburst says more about Hollywood’s craving for moral theater than it does about Sydney Sweeney. And until the industry learns to value character and craft over ideological conformity, we’ll keep getting headlines like this one instead of the next great movie.
How do you feel about Ruby Rose attacking Sydney Sweeney? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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Ruby, please take this in the spirit it is meant: don’t go away delusional, just go away. Or at least go far enough away your crazy isn’t in the contagious zone.
WTF does “Most of us were actually gay. It’s part of why I stayed in acting,” even mean? You wouldn’t be acting if you were straight? You wanted the role because it was a “gay” role? It reminds me of a scene from “A Chorus Line” where the girl is talking about how her acting coach is telling the class to improvise being on a bobsled, among other things.
Now, presumably none of the people in the class are actual bobsledders but somehow they all managed to make-believe (except her). Its called “acting” and it is a skill (some) people cultivate to portray someone or something that is different than who they actually are.
Like how Ruby is pretending you are still relevant. ACTING!
A (Jewess-name?) woman, eyes shining green with envy.
Jewess? How antisemitic can you get asshat? You wouldn’t put a homophobic slur, but you knew nobody would ding you for antisemitism these days. Well, get ass cancer mf-er. Have the day you deserve.
It’s called jealousy, jealous about someone becoming incredibly famous from a jeans ad, because she has great “jeans”, from someone who was in a movie nobody remembers or cares about or even wants to hire because apparently “she?” can’t play anything other than “gay”.
You don’t need to be an outspoken critic of the alphabet people to be marked as an enemy to them. Unless you’re 100% complicit in their degeneracy and willing to hand your children over to them, you’re an enemy. This is how you know they’re all deeply mentally ill, and shows why we need state mental hospitals again. Funny how the height of American culture and prosperity was when we locked up the mentally ill and gave them the help they needed, and ever since we got rid of the state mental hospital system things have been on an ever increasing decline.
Even when her movies are flopping, Sweeney is still a way bigger star than Ruby Rose will ever be.
I, like most men I assume, have no desire to watch two butcher women pummel each other in a boxing ring. I sure as hell have no interest in watching Sydney Sweeney get all dogged up to portray one of these lesbian dogs that made her living doing just that. Absolutely, no thank you. Looks like every other normal man and woman feels the same. What’d it make? Less than $2 mill? Even if chartreuse carnation was in it, the box office would’ve remained static, if not significantly lower. That fool actually thinks her gaywad street cred. gives her some sort of secret sauce that would’ve given this abomination wings? How many 40-50 lesbo boxing fans are the out there? A thousand? Eight-nine hundred total out of billions?
Getting ugly helped Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich and Charlize Theron in Monster. Can’t hurt Sweeny to be in a flop that gets good critic reviews and Oscar buzz.
Ruby who?
Rose being mad and a propaganda movie flopping – good news all around.
Ruby Rose is an awesome name, but she was never a likeable actress. She’s just not great. She’s very one dimensional. I watched the entire Batgirl series. I wasn’t unhappy with her replacement. She’s just jealous that they got a better actor to take the role. One with a bigger name. She’s picking anything she can to go at her. If she was a Democrat, she still would have dug up something.