Kim Novak has reservations about her upcoming biopic.
The “Vertigo” actress, 92, just lately admitted she's “involved” about how her real-life romance with singer and actor Sammy Davis Jr. can be portrayed within the forthcoming film “Scandalous!”, starring Sydney Sweeney as Novak.
“I don't suppose the connection was scandalous,” Novak informed The Guardian in an interview revealed Saturday.
“He's someone I actually cared about,” Novak continued about Davis, who died in 1990 at age 64. “We had a lot in widespread, together with that should be accepted for who we're and what we do, slightly than how we glance.”
Novak added, “However I'm involved they're going to make all of it sexual causes.”
Sweeney, 27, will star within the biopic as Novak, reverse British actor David Jonsson who will play Davis.
In Could, the “Anybody However You” actress channeled Novak on the 2025 Met Gala by sporting a black glowing robe from Miu Miu that resembled an outfit Novak wore earlier than.
The biopic — which is being directed by Sweeney's “Euphoria” co-star, Colman Domingo, in his directorial debut — will comply with Novak and Davis' real-life “forbidden romance” on the top of Hollywood's Golden Age within the Nineteen Fifties.
The previous couple fell in love in 1957, however the romance was short-lived after Columbia Footage boss Harry Cohn ordered that the 2 ought to break up.
Cohn then instructed Davis to marry a girl of coloration inside 48 hours and threatened his life if he didn't finish his relationship with Novak, in keeping with a 2017 Smithsonian Magazine report.
Cohn — who allegedly had mob connections — scared the “Ocean's 11” actor by saying he would have each his legs damaged and his eyes minimize out if he didn't discover a spouse inside two days.
Davis then married Loray White in 1958, and so they divorced a yr later.
In the meantime, Novak mentioned “I do” to Richard Johnson in 1965, and so they break up a number of months later. She wed her second partner, Robert Malloy in 1976, and so they stayed collectively till his dying.
Final yr, Novak's longtime supervisor, Sue Cameron, spoke out in regards to the plans for the biopic and insisted it's necessary the venture is correct.
“Kim and I've been conscious of no less than 4 unauthorized and unapproved initiatives in growth in regards to the Kim Novak and Sammy Davis affair,” Cameron told People in Nov. 2024.
“She by no means wished to get married again then — to anybody. It was a romance based mostly on love, respect, the issues they shared in widespread,” the supervisor added.
Cameron additionally mentioned that Novak fell for Davis as a result of “they have been each rebels” and “hoped their relationship may assist break down folks's racial bias.”
“Scandalous!” is predicted to be launched in 2026.
