{"id":570122,"date":"2026-03-30T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:35:08","slug":"kim-novak-says-sydney-sweeney-is-totally-wrong-to-play-me-in-biopic-sydney-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570122\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Novak says Sydney Sweeney is \u2018totally wrong to play me\u2019 in biopic | Sydney Sweeney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Novak has voiced her disapproval of the casting of Sydney Sweeney<\/a> as herself in an upcoming biopic, saying she is \u201ctotally wrong to play me\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Times<\/a>, the 93-year-old actor said she would have \u201cnever approved\u201d the biopic Scandalous, about her relationship with the musician Sammy Davis Jr.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s development has reportedly stalled, but Sweeney\u2019s Euphoria co-star Colman Domingo is connected to direct the film, with Sweeney cast as Novak and the British actor David Jonsson as Davis.<\/p>\n

Sweeney \u201csticks out so much above the waist\u201d, Novak told the Times, adding that she was worried the film would focus too heavily on her sexual dynamic with Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way it wouldn\u2019t be a sexual relationship because Sydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time,\u201d Novak said. \u201cShe was totally wrong to play me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweeney has yet to respond to the remarks. In October, she told People<\/a> she was \u201cincredibly honoured\u201d to play Novak and \u201cso excited\u201d to meet her.<\/p>\n

\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,\u201d Sweeney said at the time. \u201cAnd I think that for me, I relate to it in a lot of different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Novak said if Sydney Sweeney were cast to play her, she\u2019d worry the biopic would focus too heavily on her sexual dynamic with Sammy Davis Jr. Photograph: Emma McIntyre\/Getty for Scad<\/p>\n

In August, Novak told the Guardian<\/a> she took issue with the film\u2019s title. \u201cI don\u2019t think the relationship was scandalous,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Novak and Davis first met in 1956 and their romance quietly developed over the following year. Davis regularly visited Novak on the set of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Vertigo, and the two spent Thanksgiving and Christmas together. But in 1958, their relationship was outed by a gossip columnist, sparking worries at Columbia Pictures that a public backlash against their star Novak for being in an interracial relationship would hurt the studio.<\/p>\n

Novak publicly denied she and Davis were in a relationship, but the Columbia boss, Harry Cohn, hired crime figures to threaten to blind Davis or break his legs<\/a> unless he married a black woman within 48 hours; just nine days later, Davis married a black woman, the dancer Loray White. The pair never lived together and commenced divorce proceedings nine months later.<\/p>\n

Novak briefly married the British actor Richard Johnson in 1965, then the equine veterinarian Robert Malloy in 1976; the couple remained together until his death in 2020.<\/p>\n