Love Island USA season 6 finalist Leah Kateb is responding to blended reactions about her interview with Sydney Sweeney.
“Spilling tea and oversharing with the women 10/10 🫖,” Kateb, 26, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, November 19, sharing footage with Sweeney, 28, and her The Housemaid costar Amanda Seyfried. “Don’t miss all of the drama —#thehousemaidmovie hits theaters Dec 19 and tickets are on sale now.”
Within the feedback part of her publish, Kateb was questioned about agreeing to talk with Sweeney within the first place.
“It’s virtually like I’ve a contract with Lionsgate, not homegirl,” Kateb wrote in a since-deleted Instagram remark, per a screenshot obtained by BuzzFeed.
Kateb has not addressed why she seemingly determined to delete her remark, however did reply to a different follower’s protection of her interview within the first place.
“Y’all appearing like she selected who to interview,” the fan wrote. “Sydney is within the movie so in fact she’s there.”
As for Kateb, she careworn that she was merely a passionate fan of The Housemaid novel that Sweeney’s film was primarily based on.
“Thoughts you, I’m a HUGE fan of the books and Freida McFadden‘s different books as effectively,” Kateb responded in an Instagram remark.
In Kateb’s interview, she organized a recreation referred to as “Spill the Tea or Break the China,” the place each Sweeney and Seyfried, 39, have been tasked with answering questions or smashing dinnerware.
“What’s the wildest fan DM you’ve ever gotten?” Sweeney learn through the recreation. “So, I received one the opposite day from this particular person that everybody is aware of. It was what you watched it will be. It’s an attention-grabbing one.”
Seyfried responded, “Do [guys] suppose that they’ll get you this fashion? You’re, like, ‘Oh, no no, you’ve seemed within the flawed place.’ Infants.”
Throughout different rounds, Sweeney revealed she “doesn’t bear in mind” what occurred at her birthday celebration and teased that followers have to “wait and see” the most important Housemaid plot twists.
Sweeney has not too long ago been on the middle of a number of social media controversies concerning criticism of her film Christy and its low field workplace numbers and an American Eagle denim marketing campaign with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Good Genes.” (A handful of critics claimed that advert promoted the falsely confirmed perception of eugenics.)
“I imply, the response undoubtedly was a shock, however I really like denims. All I put on are denims,” Sweeney advised GQ earlier this month of the AE backlash. “I wasn’t pondering of it like that, or any of it. I sort of simply put my cellphone away. I used to be filming daily. I’m filming Euphoria, so I’m working 16-hour days and I don’t actually carry my cellphone on set, so I work after which I am going house and I fall asleep. So I didn’t actually see a whole lot of it.”
She added, “I feel that when I’ve a problem that I wish to talk about, folks will hear. … It was all simply a whole lot of speak, and since I knew on the finish of the day what that advert was for, and it was nice denims, it didn’t have an effect on me in some way.”