![]() “You need to show it to understand the struggle and how hard she tried. “No one is meant to live with that pressure, As the audience, we need to understand that we participated in that pressure,” says de Armas. It demonstrates Monroe’s difficulties under bright lights dealing with the unrelenting demands of the men in her life, the film studios and even the fans. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson).ĭe Armas defends the often uncomfortable viewing. While the story is historical fiction, it delves into her abusive union with Joe DiMaggio (Bobby Cannavale), a sorrow-filled marriage to playwright Arthur Miller (Adrien Brody) and a lurid affair with President John F. “Blonde” can be harrowing to watch as Monroe struggles through well-documented personal problems with the men in her life. Because I felt closer to her.”ġ0 must-see movies coming out this fall:From ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ to Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Black Adam’ She’s all over Los Angeles, even in the car I was driving, which is the same (model) she drove, in the house where she lived and the room where she died,” says de Armas. “We all felt it because it was so powerful. 5 perfume on her wrists each day, says it was impossible not to feel the star’s presence. Some of their actual former residences were used in “Blonde,” with Monroe’s final moments shot in the very room where the legend died in 1962.ĭe Armas, who applied Monroe’s favorite Chanel No. That was the cherry on top.”įilming took place in Los Angeles, not far from the many homes in which young Norma Jeane grew up with her troubled single mother. That was part of the process I had to do. The rest was just makeup and tons of eyelashes.” says de Armas, who would slip into the chair at 4:30 am and sleep with “someone holding my head up to do the makeup. “There was one prosthetic on my forehead to cover my hairline. It was very intimate and beautiful.”Įach day shooting “Blonde,” de Armas would sit in the makeup chair for 3½ hours for the transformation into Monroe throughout each phase of her adult life.Īna de Armas in ‘Blonde’:Marilyn Monroe estate ‘can’t wait’ to see de Armas as Monroe “She has this little bench in front, so we just sat there and touched her. “There was lipstick all over the stone and fresh flowers” left by fans, de Armas remembers about Monroe’s final resting place. The Southern California weather was oddly but suitably moodily raining. But one of her first tasks before shooting began in 2019 was to touch base with Monroe herself.ĭominik and his Monroe actress visited the star’s famous Westwood Memorial Park crypt in Los Angeles, pleading with the guard to let them in while a private service took place nearby. Her feelings can just fill up the room.”ĭe Armas began intensive voice training to mask her accent and capture Monroe’s famous voice, even while shooting “Knives Out” in 2018. “Ana has an emotional force field around her. Making the Monroe connection was “pretty obvious,” Dominik insists. ‘Blonde’ review: Ana de Armas is a bombshell but Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe movie is brutal He was just thinking, ‘Oh, she feels like Marilyn.’ “ “I was just happy that Andrew focused on the performance, not the accent, not the brown hair. But I felt like I knew what was going on underneath, the core of who she was,” says de Armas. “I knew I had a lot of work creating this icon. ![]() Despite obvious differences ranging from culture to hair color, de Armas felt instantly connected to Norma Jeane, who would rise to superstardom as Monroe but turned victim to the Hollywood machine before dying of a barbiturate overdose at age 36. The film spent years in preproduction before Armas, the star of “Knives Out” and “No Time to Die,” was able to read Dominik’s “Blonde” script, based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel. ‘Blonde’:Everything we know about Netflix’s NC-17-rated Marilyn Monroe movie ![]() So it was kind of meant to be that for some reason we met at the right time.” It feels like serendipity because when I did that movie, my English was nonexistent almost. “Andrew saw ‘Knock Knock’ and said that I had this Marilyn quality. Magically, de Armas has brought this unlikely vision to life in “Blonde,” which arrives Wednesday on Netflix amid critical praise for her performance in the controversial NC-17 film. Somehow, when “Blonde” writer and director Andrew Dominik saw 2015’s “Knock Knock,” he knew that Cuban-born de Armas, who played one-half of the seductive and dangerous duo terrorizing Reeves, had what it took to portray screen icon Monroe. But the film starring then-newcomer Ana de Armas has improbably set the stage for an unforgettable portrayal of Marilyn Monroe. Keanu Reeves’ critically panned erotic thriller “Knock Knock” is entirely forgettable.
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