Love Island USA season 6 finalist Leah Kateb is responding to mixed reactions about her interview with Sydney Sweeney.
“Spilling tea and oversharing with the girls 10/10 🫖,” Kateb, 26, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, November 19, sharing footage with Sweeney, 28, and her The Housemaid costar Amanda Seyfried. “Don’t miss all the drama —#thehousemaidmovie hits theaters Dec 19 and tickets are on sale immediately.”
In the comments section of her post, Kateb was questioned about agreeing to speak with Sweeney in the first place.
“It’s almost like I have a contract with Lionsgate, not homegirl,” Kateb wrote in a since-deleted Instagram comment, per a screenshot obtained by BuzzFeed.
Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is coming to life on the big screen with a pretty star-studded cast. It was announced in July 2022 that the thriller novel — which has since expanded to include two sequels — would be turned into a movie. More than two years later, Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried signed on […]
Kateb has not addressed why she seemingly decided to delete her comment, but did respond to another follower’s defense of her interview in the first place.
“Y’all acting like she chose who to interview,” the fan wrote. “Sydney is in the film so of course she’s there.”
As for Kateb, she stressed that she was merely a passionate fan of The Housemaid novel that Sweeney’s movie was based on.
“Mind you, I’m a HUGE fan of the books and Freida McFadden‘s other books as well,” Kateb responded in an Instagram comment.
In Kateb’s interview, she organized a game called “Spill the Tea or Break the China,” where both Sweeney and Seyfried, 39, were tasked with answering questions or smashing dinnerware.
“What’s the wildest fan DM you’ve ever gotten?” Sweeney read during the game. “So, I got one the other day from this person that everyone knows. It was what you suspect it would be. It’s an interesting one.”
Seyfried responded, “Do [guys] think that they’ll get you this way? You’re, like, ‘Oh, no no, you’ve looked in the wrong place.’ Babies.”
During other rounds, Sweeney revealed she “doesn’t remember” what happened at her birthday event and teased that fans need to “wait and see” the biggest Housemaid plot twists.
Sweeney has recently been at the center of several social media controversies regarding criticism of her movie Christy and its low box office numbers and an American Eagle denim campaign with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Good Genes.” (A handful of critics claimed that ad promoted the falsely proven belief of eugenics.)
“I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans,” Sweeney told GQ earlier this month of the AE backlash. “I wasn’t thinking of it like that, or any of it. I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day. I’m filming Euphoria, so I’m working 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 see a lot of it.”
She added, “I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear. … It was all just a lot of talk, and because I knew at the end of the day what that ad was for, and it was great jeans, it didn’t affect me one way or the other.”
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