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\u201cI 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,” Sweeney said. \u201cAnd I think that for me, I relate to it in a lot of different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Novak had previously expressed reservations about the plan to bring her short-lived relationship with Davis, who died in 1990, to the big screen. \u201cI don\u2019t think the relationship was scandalous,\u201d she told the Guardian<\/em><\/a> last year. \u201cHe\u2019s somebody I really cared about. 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\u2019m concerned they\u2019re going to make it all sexual reasons.”<\/p>\n Novak expressed those concerns again when she spoke with the Times<\/em>, saying “There\u2019s no way it wouldn\u2019t be a sexual relationship because Sydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time. She was totally wrong to play me.\u201d<\/p>\n Sydney Sweeney and Colman Domingo at the 2024 Met Gala<\/p>\n <\/span>Cindy Ord\/MG24\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Speaking with Deadline<\/em><\/a> in 2024, Domingo suggested that his motives lie elsewhere. \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll make a beautiful, sweet film that\u2019s really about the possibility of love, but under many eyes, trying to have privacy, trying to have love, trying to have a life,\u201d he said then.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s something that Sydney and I both know very well. We\u2019re trying to advocate for your humanity again in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n The current status of Scandalous!<\/em> is unknown, but Sweeney discussed the film as recently as December 2025, when she told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> that\u2014as a producer on the film\u2014Sweeney pushed for Domingo to direct the movie.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only person who would really be able to tell this story and to the degree that it needs to be beautifully told is Colman Domingo,\u201d she said. “We\u2019ve been putting it together and raising financing \u2014 it\u2019s been a labor of love.\u201d<\/p>\n Originally published by Vanity Fair France<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n