Although Sydney Sweeney is back in character as Cassie to film Season 3 of Euphoria, she’s ready to dive into her next meaty role.
The 2x Emmy nominee recently said she’s “going to turn my brain into” Kim Novak after completing the HBO Max series, and she’s “so excited” to meet the 92-year old actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age before beginning production on Colman Domingo‘s directorial debut Scandalous! for Miramax.
“I’m incredibly honored to be bringing Kim to life. I mean, she is such an amazing actress,” she told People. “I think her story is still very relevant today in that she dealt with Hollywood and scrutiny with her relationships and her own private life and the control of her image. And I think that for me, I relate to it in a lot of different ways.”
Sweeney added, “Once I finish Euphoria, I switch into Scandalous! gear 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 meeting will put some of Novak’s concerns to rest. “I don’t think the relationship was scandalous,” she said in August.
David Jonsson (R) will play Sammy Davis, Jr. (L) in Colman Domingo’s directorial debut ‘Scandalous!‘ (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Josh Telles/Deadline)
“He’s somebody I really cared about,” Novak told The Guardian. “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 concerned they’re going to make it all sexual reasons.”
Last October, Deadline exclusively announced Domingo will direct Scandalous!, about the 1957 love affair between Novak and Sammy Davis Jr., with David Jonsson set to play the latter. Also reprising his role for Season 3 of Euphoria, Domingo is set to begin production after wrapping the series.
Domingo previously opened up to Deadline about depicting “this fractured love story” with his upcoming directorial debut.
“And then hopefully we’ll make a beautiful, sweet film that’s really about the possibility of love, but under many eyes, trying to have privacy, trying to have love, trying to have a life,” he said last November. “And I think it’s something that Sydney and I both know very well. We’re trying to advocate for your humanity again in your life.”
Written by Matthew Fantaci, producers include Sweeney, Tani Cohen and Bobby Rock, with Jon Levin exec producing.
