It’s shaping as much as be a busy yr for Colman Domingo, who’s getting ready to make his directorial debut with Scandalous! in 2025.
Whereas discussing his new Netflix collection The Insanity, the Oscar-nominated actor informed Deadline he’s planning to enter manufacturing on the upcoming movie, which stars Sydney Sweeney in a “fractured love story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak,” after they full filming on Season 3 of HBO‘s Euphoria in the summertime of 2025.
“Our objective is to shoot it proper after we’re each accomplished with Euphoria, so hopefully I’ll go into prep proper after that subsequent yr, in all probability within the third quarter of subsequent yr,” he famous. “After which hopefully we’ll make a stupendous, candy movie that’s actually about the opportunity of love, however beneath many eyes, attempting to have privateness, attempting to have love, attempting to have a life. And I believe it’s one thing that Sydney and I each know very properly. We’re attempting to advocate on your humanity once more in your life.”
Domingo praised Sweeney for bringing him onto the mission after working collectively on Euphoria, by which he performs Narcotics Nameless sponsor Ali Muhammed and he or she stars as highschool scholar Cassie Howard. They each return for the long-awaited third season, which begins filming in January.
“The gorgeous factor is, Sydney Sweeney as a producer introduced me on board as a director for this. The mission landed in her arms, and he or she thought, who can be director to have interaction along with her on this, and he or she considered me,” he defined. “I learn the script, and I had some notes — I did a page-one rewrite of it. She cherished it. So, we had been actually partaking one-on-one in that method of what probably we are able to make collectively, type of this fractured love story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak.
“After which we additionally simply solid David Jonsson to go on this journey with us, so it feels nonetheless very intimate, with Jonathan Glickman at Miramax. So, it seems like we’re nonetheless within the dream state of it,” added Domingo.
Novak, star of Vertigo, and Rat Pack member Davis had been on the peak of star energy after they met whereas friends on The Steve Allen Present. They fell exhausting 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 Photos chief who had the actress beneath contract. Her covert affair with Davis turned huge information when a Chicago gossip columnist wrote an in depth account of their relationship in early 1958, together with their plans to wed, regardless of their denials. 9 days later, Davis married a Black refrain woman named Loray White.
