Sydney Sweeney to star in new Barbarella movie

Euphoria bombshell Sydney Sweeney has been cast as the protagonist in the new film from the French comic book Barbarella.

A sexpot in space, Barbarella was iconicly played by Jane Fonda in a 1968 cult classic directed by her first husband Roger Vadim.

Now, confirming her pin-up credentials, Sydney will star and executive produce a new film about the character, according to Deadline.

Roger Vadim was a famous French filmmaker with a prodigious array of women, starting with Brigitte Bardot, whom he directed several times.

“He was incredibly sexy and he could charm anyone,” Jane said PeopleTV in 2018. “I mean, for me it was Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Annette Stroyberg, and so on. And I was young and I wanted him to teach me how to be a woman – so he taught me to be a female impersonator.’

Jane, the third of his six wives, revealed in her documentary Jane Fonda In Five Acts that she was reluctant to take on the challenging role of Barbarella.

Painfully insecure about her body to the point of having a history of bulimia, she found herself unable to “compare” to the role of a sexually confident space traveler.

To add to her doubts, she was aware that both Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren had been offered the part and turned down.

However, a seasoned science fiction fan, Roger seized the opportunity to combine the genre with sensuality and star his wife.

In the rambunctious comedy, Barbarella takes on a mad scientist with an “Excessive Machine” that causes death by orgasm.

The opening titles are splashed about a montage of Jane doing what she called a “space striptease” and then rolling around naked.

She was so nervous about the prospect of shooting the sequence that she got drunk on vodka in preparation for filming.

However, a bat made its way in front of the camera, destroying the scene and necessitating another shot – with Jane at the time both drunk and hungover.

As the decades passed, she learned to love the film and said with a laugh, “You know, when it first came out I just became an activist and a feminist and I thought it wasn’t politically correct – and now I appreciate it.” it because it isn’t.’

Jane revealed during a BFI event a few years ago that she once pitched a sequel starring Angelina Jolie as her daughter.

As the original Barbarella, Jane would be in a “grandmother” position leading a “team of women” to rescue Angelina when she falls into the hands of the villain.