Although Sydney Sweeney is back as Cassie to film Season 3 of Euphoriashe’s ready to dive into her next meaty role.
The 2x Emmy nominee recently said she was “going to turn my brain into” Kim Novak after finishing the HBO Max series, and she was “so excited” to meet the 92-year-old actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age before she began production on Colman Domingo’s directorial debut. Scandalous! for Miramax.
“I’m incredibly honored to bring Kim to life. I mean, she’s such an incredible actress,” she said. People. “I think her story is still very relevant today in that it dealt with Hollywood and the scrutiny of one’s relationships and one’s own private life and control of one’s image. And I think for me, I relate to it in different ways.”
Sweeney added: “Once I’m done EuphoriaI pass to Scandalous! equipment and I’m going to turn my brain into Kim. I’m so excited. I’m like, “Oh my God. I’m going to meet Kim Novak.’
Hopefully their reunion will allay some of Novak’s concerns. “I don’t think this relationship is scandalous,” she said in August.
David Jonsson (right) will play Sammy Davis, Jr. (left) in Colman Domingo’s directorial debut, “Scandalous!” » (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Josh Telles/Deadline)
“He’s someone I really cared about,” Novak said The Guardian. “We had so much in common, including the need to be accepted for who we are and what we do, rather than how we look. But I worry they’ll just make it sexual.”
Last October, Deadline exclusively announced that Domingo would direct Scandalous!about the 1957 love story between Novak and Sammy Davis Jr., with David Jonsson set to play the latter. Also reprising his role for season 3 of EuphoriaDomingo is expected to begin production after finishing the series.
Domingo previously spoke to Deadline about describing “this fractured love story” with his upcoming directorial debut.
“And then I hope we make a beautiful, sweet film that’s really about the possibility of love, but in front of many eyes, trying to have intimacy, trying to have love, trying to have a life,” he said last November. “And I think that’s something that Sydney and I know very well. We’re trying to defend your humanity in your life again.”
Written by Matthew Fantaci, producers include Sweeney, Tani Cohen and Bobby Rock, with Jon Levin serving as executive producer.
