Kim Novak says Sydney Sweeney playing her is “totally wrong” because she “looks sexy all the time”
Kim Novak has criticised the planned biopic of her life, starring Sydney Sweeney, as “totally wrong”.
In 2024, it was announced that Sweeney was set to play Novak in Scandalous, with Industry star David Jonsson playing Sammy Davis Jr and the film chronicling their relationship.
Colman Domingo was also set to direct the feature, which was planned to chronicle the backlash the couple faced in the 1950s due to being a mixed-race couple.
Despite being announced, Scandalous has not yet entered production, suggesting that the project may have stalled.
If the film doesn’t ultimately make it to the big screen, Novak, now 93, will be relieved. In a new interview with The Times, she said that “I would never have approved” to the movie being made if the decision was in her hands, and said Sweeney “sticks out so much above the waist”.
Novak also expressed her fear that the film would be too sexual, stating that their relationship was due to them having “so much in common”.
She added, “There’s no way it wouldn’t be a sexual relationship because Sydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time. She was totally wrong to play me.”
This is not the first time that Novak has criticised the project. Last year, while speaking to The Guardian, the 92-year-old film icon explained her reservations about the title of the movie, stating, “I don’t think the relationship was scandalous.”
Novak continued: “He’s somebody I really cared about. We had so much in common, including that need to be accepted for who we are and what we do, rather than how we look. But I’m concerned they’re going to make it all sexual reasons.”
In 2024, Dolmingo promised that Scandalous “will be a beautiful, sweet film that’s really about the possibility of love, but under many eyes, trying to have privacy, trying to have love, trying to have a life”.
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