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Actor David Jonsson is rapidly turning into considered one of Hollywood’s brightest stars. Recent off his stellar efficiency in Alien: Romulus, Jonsson is ready to star reverse Sydney Sweeny in Colman Domingo’s directorial debut.
Deadline solely reviews that Jonsson will play Sammy Davis Jr., and Sweeney will play movie star Kim Novak in Scandalous. The movie will inform the story of Davis Jr. and Novak’s love affair in 1957.
The web site reviews that Colman Domingo’s movie has been fast-tracked at Miramax and can start capturing in Los Angeles after Sweeney and Domingo end filming season 3 of the hit HBO collection Euphoria.
Per Deadline:
Earlier than he turned Miramax CEO, Jon Glickman originated the mission at Panoramic, and remained excessive on it. Novak, star of Vertigo, and Rat Pack member Davis have been on the peak of star energy after they met whereas friends on The Steve Allen Present. They fell onerous for one another, however as rumors unfold, the rampant racism in America threatened to derail their careers. Novak expertise the ire of Harry Cohn, the Columbia Footage chief who had the actress below contract. Their covert affair turned huge information when a Chicago gossip columnist in early 1958 wrote an in depth account of their relationship, together with their plans to marry. This regardless of their denials. Davis 9 days later married a Black refrain woman named Loray White.
Sweeney is coming off her efficiency in one of many 12 months’s sleeper hits, Anybody however You, reverse Glen Powell. Deadline reviews that Sweeney was “very energetic” in getting this mission and also will function a producer together with Tani Cohen and Bobby Rock, with Jon Levin as the manager producer.
Domingo has additionally been busy coming off award-worthy performances in Rustin and Sing Sing. He additionally has a movie about Nat King Cole he’ll direct and star in.
