Yes, it is possible to be too sexy, at least in certain situations, according to Kim Novak.
US actress Sydney Sweeney arrives for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on September 14, 2025. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Actress Kim Novak presents the Grand Prix award at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on May 26, 2013.
The 93-year-old Hollywood legend, known for her work in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” recently explained why a movie about her life and relationship with Sammy Davis Jr, called “Scandalous,” will never happen. “I would never have approved,” Novak said, worried that the film would focus too much on the sexual element of the relationship. After all, Sydney Sweeney was attached to play Novak in the film. “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,” Novak told LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 15: Sydney Sweeney attends Lionsgate's LA Premiere of "The Housemaid" at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Novak developed a relationship with Davis in 1957, when interracial marriages were still illegal in many states and taboo in Hollywood. According to one legend, Columbia Pictures co-founder Harry Cohn paid a mobster to threaten to break Davis’ legs and blind him unless he married a black woman. “Oh, I know it was true,” Novak said of the rumor.Davis and Novak’s attraction to each other was based on having “so much in common,” including wanting to prove themselves as actors, which is why Novak felt a biopic that focused on something more, well, scandalous, wouldn’t have done her relationship justice. US actress Sydney Sweeney arrives for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on September 14, 2025. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Colman Domingo was set to direct the film, which also would have starred David Jonsson. The plan was to shoot the movie after Domingo and Sweeney finished filming “Euphoria” season 3, according toWashington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby submitted his resignation and announced his retirement late last week.The Washington County Sheriff's Office said BrookA police incident has closed southbound I-215 near 4700 South in Taylorsville on Sunday evening.According to the Utah Highway Patrol, a vehicle fled from policePassengers on a Delta Air Lines flight departing Salt Lake City said their plane was held on the tarmac for nearly an hour to wait for a late-arriving passengerBones found by a horseback rider in the mountains above Springville were confirmed to be human, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.Sgt. Raymond OrmonSouthbound I-15 was closed at Point of the Mountain after a motorcycle crash.The highway was closed between Bangerter Highway and Draper.According to Sgt. Andre
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