Sydney Sweeney addresses Glen Powell dating speculation: ‘That’s what people want!’

Sydney Sweeney has addressed speculation about her dating her Anyone But You co-star Glen Powell.

The White Lotus actor stars opposite Powell, who recently appeared in Top Gun: Maverick, in the forthcoming romantic comedy directed and co-written by Will Gluck.

During production and later amid early promo for the movie, photos and videos of the pair interacting sent fans into a frenzy, leading them to speculate whether they were romantically involved.

Then in April, Powell’s then-girlfriend, Gigi Paris, added to fuel to the speculation when she unfollowed the actors on social media and posted a cryptic Instagram post.

The film stars pictured promoting the film in April (Getty Images for CinemaCon)

At the time, the model appeared to confirm reports that she and Powell had broken up when she shared a video of herself walking down the street with the caption: “Know your worth and onto the next.”

Meanwhile, the Euphoria star is currently engaged to Chicago-based businessman Jonathan Davino, and was seen publicly with him in May.

Now in a new interview, the 25-year-old hit back at reports and insisted that any romantic chemistry between her and Powell was for the film.

She told Variety: “It’s a romcom. That’s what people want! Glen and I don’t really care. We have so much fun together, and we respect each other so much; he’s such a hard worker, and I’m a hard worker.

“We’re excited for the press tour, and I literally just left ADR [automated dialogue replacement] with him. We talk all the time like, ‘That’s really funny.’”

She said of the media furore surrounding their relationship: “They want it. It’s fun to give it to ‘em.”

While the upcoming film’s director Gluck remarked: “Sydney is brilliant at a lot of things, including how to deal with social media; she didn’t emotionally internalise it. It was crazy, but after a while it became normal.”