United Kingdom, March 29 -- Kim Novak has implied that Sydney Sweeney is too busty to play her in Scandalous!

The Colman Domingo-directed movie chronicles her 1950s romance with legendary singer Sammy Davis Jr - who is portrayed by David Jonsson.

Kim, 93, told The Times newspaper: "I would never have approved."

She then argued: "Sticks out so much above the waist."

The retired actress and the legendary Rat Pack singer - who died of laryngeal cancer in May 1990, at the age of 64 - met in 1956 on The Steve Allen Show and later entered a romantic relationship.

The interracial couple were the subject of heavy criticism both in and out of Hollywood during a time of racial tensions in the US, and Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn threatene...