Novak—who stars in a new documentary about her time making Vertigo—was responding to reports that Sweeney would play her in a movie called Scandalous!.
), exploring the 93-year-old’s recollections of her time making the celebrated Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Although Novak’s been retired from acting since the 1990s,, situated around the film’s eventual release, makes it clear that she still keeps up-to-date on Hollywood’s new stars… and which ones she wouldn’t want playing her in a biopic.
, about Novak’s romantic relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1950s. And while the film—which would have also reportedly starred‘s David Jonsson as Davis—has apparently stalled out, Novak has made it clear that she wasn’t wild about Sweeney as a pick for playing her, on either an aesthetic or a conceptual level. “I never would have approved,” Novak said of the casting, stating, a bit bluntly, that part of her objection was that Sweeney “sticks out so much above the waist.” But even beyond those obstructions, Novak seems to feel that the mere casting of the star betrayed a failure of priorities for the project, which was set to be the directorial debut of actor Colman Domingo. Emphasizing that her relationship with Davis was rooted in them having “so much in common”—both were attempting to get out of boxes that 1950s Hollywood kept insisting on putting them in—Novak says that she thinks casting Sweeney would inherently tilt the movie to focus more on the sexual aspect of their relationship, to the detriment of that connection. “There’s no way it wouldn’t be a sexual relationship because Sydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time,” Novak ultimately concludes. “She was totally wrong to play me.” Sweeney clearly didn’t agree;back when the project was being talked about as an active concern last May that she was one of the people moving behind the scenes to get it made.debuted at the Venice Film Festival last September; no word yet on when it’ll get a wider release date.
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