Sydney Sweeney made quite the impression while attending the Elle Women In Hollywood Event, which was held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Monday evening.

The 25-year-old performer cut a seriously stylish figure at the annual function, which was attended by host of A-list stars from the entertainment industry.

The actress’ appearance at the event took place not long after it was confirmed that she would portray Barbarella in an upcoming movie centered on the French comic book character.

Sydney Sweeney in leather at ELLE’s 2022 Women in Hollywood

There she is: Sydney Sweeney made quite the impression while attending the Elle Women In Hollywood Event, which was held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Monday evening

New generation: Her outing follows the news she is set to star in a remake of the 1968 cult classic Barbarella; Jane Fonda is seen on the left playing the comic book sexpot

Sweeney wore an all-black outfit that included a stylish sleeved leather crop top which also served to show off a portion of her toned tummy during the event.
Her gorgeous blonde hair fell towards her shoulders and contrasted perfectly with the dark tone of her clothing.

Making an impression: Sweeney wore an all-black outfit that included a stylish sleeved leather crop top which also served to show off a portion of her toned tummy during the event

The news about the actress’ casting as the comic book character was announced earlier this month.

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

Sweeney, who will be cementing her pinup credentials in the title role, will also serve as one of the project’s executive producers, according to Deadline.

Roger Vadim was a famous French filmmaker with a prodigious string of wives beginning with Brigitte Bardot, whom he directed multiple times.

‘He was incredibly sexy and he could charm anyone,’ Jane told PeopleTV in 2018. ‘I mean, before me it was Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Annette Stroyberg, and so forth. 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 Fonda stars in the 1968 sci-fi movie Barbarella

Dark side: Painfully insecure about her body to the point she had a history of bulimia, Jane found herself unable to ‘relate’ to the part of a sexually confident space traveler

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

Painfully insecure about her body to the point she had a history of bulimia, she found herself unable to ‘relate’ to the part of a sexually confident space traveler.

To add to her misgivings, she was aware that both Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren had been offered the role and rejected it.

However Roger, a diehard science fiction fan, leapt at the opportunity to combine the genre with sensuality and feature his wife in the lead.

The rollicking comedy sees Barbarella face off against a mad scientist with an ‘Excessive Machine’ that causes death by orgasm.

Its opening credits are splashed over 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, wrecking the scene and requiring a reshoot – with Jane by that point both drunk and hungover.

As the decades rolled by she learned to love the movie, saying with a laugh: ‘You know, when it first came out, I was just becoming an activist and a feminist and I thought it wasn’t politically correct – and now I appreciate it because it’s not.’

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.