Overview
- Novak, in a Friday interview with The Times of London, called Sydney Sweeney “totally wrong” to portray her and said the film would skew sexual because Sweeney “looks sexy all the time.”
- Scandalous! is planned as Colman Domingo’s directorial debut about Novak’s 1957 relationship with Sammy Davis Jr., with David Jonsson as Davis and Sweeney also serving as a producer.
- Multiple outlets report the project appears stalled with no confirmed start date or release plan, despite earlier talk that work would follow the next season of Euphoria.
- Novak has long rejected the film’s title and focus, saying her bond with Davis rested on shared values, and she told The Times she believes studio boss Harry Cohn threatened Davis to end the interracial relationship.
- Sweeney has said she feels honored to take on the role and hoped to meet Novak, setting up a broader debate over casting, image, and how biopics frame women’s lives and agency in Hollywood.