Sydney Sweeney is taking a visit to the forty first century.
The “Euphoria” starlet, 25, is entering into Jane Fonda’s metallic, knee-high boots in an upcoming remake of the 1968 movie “Barbarella.”
Sweeney will likely be showing in — in addition to executive-producing — the movie for Sony Footage, Deadline confirmed on Tuesday.
The sci-fi flick was based mostly on Jean-Claude Forest’s French comedian e-book sequence and starred Fonda, now 84, as a glamorous futuristic house astronaut as she battles evil throughout the cosmos.
Roger Vadim directed the image greater than 50 years in the past and, whereas the film wasn’t initially a box-office hit, it turned a cult basic over time.
The movie earned a lot reward in the UK, and it turned the 12 months’s second-highest-grossing movie.
A director, author and a full solid checklist for the remake have but to be introduced.
John Phillip Regulation, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau and Claude Dauphin additionally starred alongside Fonda in “Barbarella.”
The “White Lotus” star at present has a number of tasks underneath her belt, together with a supportive function within the “Spider-Man” spinoff, “Madame Net.”
Sweeney, who simply launched a manufacturing firm of her personal, additionally just lately completed taking pictures the film “Nationwide Anthem” with singer Halsey.
The Spokane, Washington-born actress brought on a stir earlier this 12 months when she claimed “they don’t pay actors like they used to” — regardless of her Emmy nomination, starring roles in upcoming motion pictures and her first $3 million mansion.
Nonetheless, in August, she spoke to IndieWire at size about her rising profession and that she feels that she has an array of choices when choosing her roles.
“With the ability to be within the place that I'm now, the place I can say ‘no,’ is terrifying. I get so scared. I don’t like saying ‘no,’ ” Sweeney informed the publication on the time.
She continued, “I really write letters to folks saying, ‘I’m so sorry I’m saying no,’ as a result of I don’t like being that particular person. [I want] to verify I’m selecting characters that may shock the viewers.”
“I’m nonetheless within the ‘Is that this occurring? Is that this actual?’ section,” she added, noting how her identify is now up within the award-worthy ranks with icons corresponding to Patricia Arquette and Christina Ricci.
However she nonetheless will get blinded by stars despite her personal fame.
“I’m consistently nonetheless starstruck and may’t consider this life is actual,” Sweeney stated. “As a result of for years and years and years, I dreamt and labored so onerous within the hopes of with the ability to simply have one line in a scene with any person like that.”
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