Sydney Sweeney has added one more film to her busy schedule as one of the most desired actresses in Hollywood right now. The 27-year-old actress, with full control of the reins of her career, keep adding projects in which she is also involved as a producer while filming the biopic of the boxer Christy Martin with address of David Michôd.
The last one we heard about is Scandalous!, nothing less than the future directorial debut of the actor Colman Domingo, one of his companions in the series Euphoria. As advanced deadline, The actress has dedicated herself very personally to carrying out this project with a script by Matthew Fantaci, one of the writers of the series New Look of Apple TV+.
Sweeney will play Kim Novak, the legendary actress Vvertigo (1958), in a story about her romance with actor and singer Sammy Davis Jr. in the second half of the 1950s; just before being signed to star in the masterpiece of Alfred Hichcock, last minute replacement Vera Miles.
It will be David Johnson (Alien: Romulus, the series Industry) who plays Davis Jr., the famous member of Sinatra’s Rat Pack with whom Novak began a relationship. secret love story after meeting when they were both guests on the television show Steve Allen. The crush and subsequent relationship had to be developed clandestinely due to the prevailing racism that threatened to destroy their careers for having an interracial romance.
The matter came to involve the dangerous and angry Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, where Novak was under contract. Cohn, known for the iron fist with which he ran the studio and the public image of his stars, could have been behind the threats from the mafia that Sammy Davis Jr. allegedly received after the affair became public in the tabloid press.
Nine days later, the actor married Loray White, a black choir singer with whom he never lived and with whom he would divorce after a few months. It is said that he showed up drunk at the noisy wedding ceremony in which he showed several attacks of violence against the bride.
Top-notch scandalous material in a period film, about the dark side of the golden age of Hollywood and filmed in Los Angeles, with which Domingo can attract considerable attention in his debut behind the cameras. Nevertheless, The project will have to wait for the very busy agendas of its managers to clear; To begin with, Sweeney and Domingo still have to film the future third season of Euphoria… if it is done.
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