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Actor Kim Novak Opening for her childhood, growing up during the big recession for a mother who, she said, almost killed her twice.
“The depression caused so much hardship,” Novak, 92said in the new documentary, Vertigo Kim NovakPure People. “My mother pregnant, and she couldn’t afford to have a child. She tried to abort me with knitting needles.
Novak said she remembers “fighting to breathe, stay alive, and I won,” continued. “I stayed alive. I did through it.”
The film, directed by Alexandre O. Philippe And now screen at the Venice Film Festival, chronicling the Vertify The career of the actress’s early and on-screen life, spanning between 1954 and 1991.
Despite her difficult upbringing, Novak held a relationship with her two parents, Joseph and BlanketAnd even look back dearly on her childhood.
“I am so often thinking about my childhood as not to be a good healthy childhood, but it was, you know,” Novak said, back People. “There were beautiful things. My dad was a very strict and difficult man.”
She continued, “My dad was like, ‘No one could succeed,’ but my mother was very confident and her eyes were sparkling and twinked and she was so full of wanting to express the joy of life. I can hear her still tell me, or make me tell me by looking in the mirror that I am the captain of my own ship, that I can be responsible for me.
As well as screening the documentary, the Venice Film Festival also honors Novak with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
“It is amazing to feel that he is valued and received this gift before the end of my life,” he told The guardian In an interview announced on Saturday, August 30.
The actress also leaned on the An upcoming biopic, disgraceful!that will star Sydney Sweeney Like Novak and David Jonsson as SAMMY DAVIS JR. The film will show the real life story of the 1950s couple’s love affairs. Novak said she was worried that the film, indeed to the title, will focus too much on the sexual nature of their relationship.
“He’s someone I really care,” he said of Davis, who died in 1990 at the age of 64. “We had so much in common, including that need to be accepted for who we are and what we do, rather than how we look. But I’m concerned that they are going to make all the sexual reasons.”