US EditionKim Novak Is 'Concerned' Biopic Starring Sydney Sweeney Will Be Too 'Sexual'
Kim Novak, aged 92, worries the biopic will misrepresent her 1957 romance with Sammy Davis Jr., highlighting challenges they faced including racial prejudice and mob threats.
- Recently, Kim Novak voiced concern about Scandalous!, the biopic starring Sydney Sweeney and marking Colman Domingo's directorial debut.
- The couple's 1950s relationship faced racist backlash and studio pressure as Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn reportedly used mob threats to end Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1957 romance.
- At the Venice Film Festival, Kim Novak accepted a lifetime achievement award and saw the premiere of Kim Novak's Vertigo, describing it as `incredible to feel appreciated`.
- The film's ad campaign ignited criticism when Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle tagline `Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,` drew backlash over perceived eugenics references, despite President Donald Trump's support saying `Now, I love her ad.`
- Director Colman Domingo has said he hopes to make `Hopefully we'll make a beautiful, sweet film` capturing love amid privacy struggles, while Kim Novak, 92-year-old actress, is aware of at least four unauthorised projects about her affair.
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The film "Scandalous", starring Sydney Sweeney, revives on the big screen Kim Novak's relationship with African-American Sammy Davis Jr., which "shocked" Hollywood in 1956-1958.
'It wasn't scandalous', Novak defends past romance
Kim Novak has expressed concern over the upcoming biopic 'Scandalous', which will dramatise her relationship with singer Sammy Davis Jr in the late 1950s, expressing the fear that the film may oversimplify their romance. "I don't think the relationship was scandalous. He's somebody I really cared about," the 92-year-old, best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo', told The Guardian, adding that she is anxious about how the story may…
Kim Novak Is 'Concerned' Biopic Starring Sydney Sweeney Will Be Too 'Sexual'
Kim Novak is sharing her concerns about the upcoming biopic Scandalous!, based on her life. “I don’t think the relationship was scandalous,” Novak, 92, told The Guardian of her relationship with singer Sammy Davis Jr. in an interview published on Saturday, August 30. “He’s somebody I really cared about,” she added. “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. But I’m concer…
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