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Sydney Sweeney Prepares to Play Kim Novak in ‘Scandalous!’

Colman Domingo is reported to direct as Sweeney pivots from Euphoria to research-led training for the role.

Overview

  • Sweeney is confirmed to star as Kim Novak in Scandalous!, a biopic focused on Novak’s 1950s relationship with Sammy Davis Jr.
  • She says she will meet Novak and is preparing with movement and dialect coaches while studying Novak’s film work.
  • Colman Domingo is reported to be directing the project, with reporting that he has already met Novak.
  • Sweeney says her work on Euphoria Season 3 is concluding and she will shift full-time to Scandalous! after wrapping.
  • Separately, she describes her boxing biopic Christy as her most personal role, featuring real contact fight scenes ahead of its U.S. release on November 7.