Sydney Sweeney took gigs as a babysitter and worked in restaurants cleaning bathrooms, she said in the Women’s Health interview. But in 2016, she found a job as a tour guide at Universal Studios. “I love tour guides at Universal. I memorized the entire thing,” she told host Sean Evans on Hot Ones in January. It didn’t last long, but Sweeney soon landed a part on HBO’s “Sharp Objects,” a role that propelled her acting career along with “Everything Sucks!” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Sweeney’s stint as a tour guide lasted just five weeks — but it happened nonetheless. The “White Lotus” actor was accused of making it up when Women’s Health listed the position alongside some menial jobs, giving the impression Sweeney had made it sound like a summer job. In a TikTok video, a tour guide described the drawn-out hiring process, which she said was incompatible with Sweeney’s portrayal. “I find it hard to believe that a teenager has time to do three weeks of training for a job while they are also in high school,” she argued.
Suspicion intensified after Sweeney appeared uncomfortable when Evans asked her about the job. But The Hollywood Reporter did some digging and uncovered that Sweeney indeed worked at Universal Studios between June 12 and July 18, 2016. She did tell Evans she was “there for a little bit.” It sounds like she just prefers not to make a big deal about the job when it was so short-lived.
