{"id":242888,"date":"2025-10-27T06:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242888\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:21:07","slug":"sydney-sweeney-is-so-excited-to-meet-kim-novak-before-scandalous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242888\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Is “So Excited” To Meet Kim Novak Before ‘Scandalous!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough Sydney Sweeney<\/a> is back in character as Cassie to film Season 3 of Euphoria<\/a>, she\u2019s ready to dive into her next meaty role.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Emmy nominee recently said she\u2019s \u201cgoing to turn my brain into\u201d Kim Novak<\/a> after completing the HBO Max<\/a> series, and she\u2019s \u201cso excited\u201d to meet the 92-year old actress from Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age before beginning production on Colman Domingo<\/a>\u2018s directorial debut Scandalous!<\/a> for Miramax<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m incredibly honored to be bringing Kim to life. I mean, she is such an amazing actress,\u201d she told People<\/a>. \u201cI think her story is still very relevant today in that she dealt with Hollywood and scrutiny with her relationships and her own private life and the control of her image. And I think that for me, I relate to it in a lot of different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney added, \u201cOnce I finish Euphoria, I switch into Scandalous! gear and I\u2019m going to turn my brain into Kim. I\u2019m so excited. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God. I\u2019m going to meet Kim Novak.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHopefully, their meeting will put some of Novak\u2019s concerns<\/a> to rest. \u201cI don\u2019t think the relationship was scandalous,\u201d she said in August.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDavid Jonsson (R) will play Sammy Davis, Jr. (L) in Colman Domingo\u2019s directorial debut \u2018Scandalous!<\/a>\u2018 (Evening Standard\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images\/Josh Telles\/Deadline)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s somebody I really cared about,\u201d Novak told The Guardian. \u201cWe 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\u2019m concerned they\u2019re going to make it all sexual reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast October, Deadline exclusively announced Domingo will direct Scandalous!<\/a>, about the 1957 love affair between Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.<\/a>, with David Jonsson<\/a> set to play the latter. Also reprising his role for Season 3 of Euphoria, Domingo is set to begin production after wrapping the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tDomingo previously opened up to Deadline about depicting \u201cthis fractured love story<\/a>\u201d with his upcoming directorial debut.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd then hopefully we\u2019ll make a beautiful, sweet film that\u2019s really about the possibility of love, but under many eyes, trying to have privacy, trying to have love, trying to have a life,\u201d he said last November. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s something that Sydney and I both know very well. We\u2019re trying to advocate for your humanity again in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Matthew Fantaci, producers include Sweeney, Tani Cohen and Bobby Rock, with Jon Levin exec producing.<\/p>\n