{"id":371239,"date":"2026-03-29T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371239\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:02:10","slug":"kim-novak-rejects-sydney-sweeney-casting-in-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371239\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Novak rejects Sydney Sweeney casting in planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are among <a id=\"SytTnlIY8oZg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/culture\/article\/rjk2zawdbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sydney Sweeney\u2019s<\/a> millions of followers on social media, you may have recently seen her high-profile campaigns. But veteran actor Kim Novak is not convinced the younger star is the right choice to portray her on screen.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Sunday Times of London, Novak, 93, criticized the casting of Sweeney in a planned biographical film about her life.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gelleryOpener\" aria-label=\"open article gallery\" data-image-id=\"ArticleImageData.r1gmKQD8i11l\" id=\"image_ArticleImageData.r1gmKQD8i11l\"><\/p>\n<p>2 View gallery <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.r1gmKQD8i11l\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ryyurUUsbx_0_0_850_479_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05e1\u05d9\u05d3\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e1\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d5\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5\u05d1\u05d0\u05e7\" title=\"Kim Novak and Sydney Sweeney  (Photo: Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP,  ASSOCIATED PRESS) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.r1gmKQD8i11l\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ryyurUUsbx_0_0_850_479_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05e1\u05d9\u05d3\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e1\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d5\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5\u05d1\u05d0\u05e7\" title=\"Kim Novak and Sydney Sweeney  (Photo: Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP,  ASSOCIATED PRESS) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kim Novak and Sydney Sweeney <\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP,  ASSOCIATED PRESS)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time,\u201d Novak said, adding that she \u201csticks out so much above the waist\u201d and was \u201ctotally wrong\u201d to play her.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Sweeney\u2019s public image, the actor has built a varied career with roles ranging from HBO\u2019s Euphoria to films portraying real-life figures. She is set to star in Scandalous, directed by Colman Domingo, which focuses on Novak\u2019s relationship with entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., a romance that drew significant attention in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Novak, best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Vertigo, said she would not have approved the casting and expressed concern about how the relationship would be portrayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never have approved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the connection between her and Davis Jr. was deeper than how it might be depicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had so much in common,\u201d Novak said. \u201cThere\u2019s no way it wouldn\u2019t be a sexual relationship because Sydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the film\u2019s description, the story centers on the secret relationship between Novak and Davis Jr., which was exposed in 1958. The two continued their relationship while publicly denying reports and maintaining other partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney has previously said she admires Novak and sees her story as relevant today, particularly in navigating public image and personal life under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Novak, reflecting on her own career, said she struggled with being defined by her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a handicap being called pretty,\u201d she said. \u201cThey only wanted to look at you. To me, it was important to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are among Sydney Sweeney\u2019s millions of followers on social media, you may have recently seen her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-371239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}