Halsey is sticking by her recent movie.
The 30-year-old singer and actress defended Americana and encouraged fans to see it in a statement on her Instagram story on Thursday (August 21). Americana opened to only $500,000 at the box office for its first weekend, having been released amid online backlash against Sydney Sweeney.
Despite the low performance, Halsey is standing by the movie. The singer encouraged fans to support the director and the movie, calling the backlash against her co-star “gossip.”
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On her Instagram story, Halsey shared the Americana poster and wrote, “You should go see this movie. Because [Tony Tost] made an exceptional film, in honor of a genre he knows intimately. Because his work and his vision are greater than the 24 hr gossip tabloid denim bullsh–t.”
She went on to encourage movie lovers to ignore the controversy surrounding Sydney. She wrote, “If you love cinema, than you should know that cinema comes first. This is cinema.”
In a separate story, Halsey also clarified her stance and shared that she was specifically defending Americana and not her co-star.
“I do agree that our words are important in this climate,” Halsey wrote in a separate Instagram story. “I don’t, however, think that it’s fair for the news cycle to predatorily rip a hardworking director and his hardworking crew for this film that is completely separate-from and unrelated-to a (pretty dumb) advertising take.”
If you missed it, the director of Americana recently defended the movie!