Marilyn Monroe

De Armas transforms into the troubled Hollywood sex symbol in Netflix's NC-17 biopic.

“I only had to audition for Marilyn once and Andrew said ‘It’s you,’ but I had to audition for everyone else. Vanity Fair shared exclusive images from Blonde this week and spoke with Oates about the similarities between the actress and 19th-century literary character Emma Bovary. “Both are young women who have a very romantic and probably unrealistic vision of love,” she explained. Set to “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” the two-minute footage presents the world with its first look at filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s vision of Monroe, which is based on Joyce Carol Oates’s 2000 bestselling novel.

Ana de Armas stars in Andrew Dominik's new film about the tragic icon.

“I know you’re supposed to get used to it,” Marilyn laments of fame, “but I just can’t.” Not only can she not get used to constant scrutiny and stardom, Marilyn can barely survive the weight of it. Shot in a mix of black-and-white and color (presumably aligning to era), the trailer is full of carefully stylized shots of Armas capturing Marilyn’s most memorable moments: the upturned white dress as she stands above the sewer grate, the JFK serenade, the pink glove-clad arms extended while crooning “Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend.” There’s also glimpses of Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller, escorting a fully made-up Marilyn away from flashbulbs and into limousines and Bobby Cannavale as Joe DiMaggio, sharing a loving glance with a fresh-faced Marilyn as they lounge together on a sun-drenched windowsill. But on the other hand, there’s Norma Jean Baker, the girl Marilyn was behind the carefully orchestrated image of a siren fit for a president—and in the first full trailer for Netflix’s Blonde, the two women are in a losing battle with each other.

The new trailer for Blonde, Andrew Dominik's upcoming Netflix movie starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, has dropped online. The footage, which you can ...

"I think if I'm given the choice, I'd rather go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story," Dominik told Vulture (opens in new tab). "Because we know that her life was on the edge, clearly, from the way it ended. The new trailer comes after pictures featuring de Armas looking uncannily like Monroe were unveiled. We also see de Armas portraying Monroe in more of her films, including Some Like It Hot and Niagara.

Directed by Andrew Dominik and based on Joyce Carol Oates' novel of the same name, Blonde arrives on the streaming service on Sept. 28 (and not Sept. 23, as the ...

“Andrew’s ambitions were very clear from the start — to present a version of Marilyn Monroe’s life through her lens,” de Armas added. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible.” Throughout the trailer, scenes from Monroe’s life flash on the screen, but behind the iconic moments from film history, Monroe struggled with her identity and the pressures of fame.

The film premieres September 23 on Netflix. Julianne Nicholson, Xavier Samuel, and Evan Williams also star, with Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner ...

Writer-director Dominik previously teased that “Blonde” is “critical of American sacred cows” like the aforementioned male titans. But I’m so proud.” It’s kind of a nightmare.

Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the NC-17 biopic is set to premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and starts streaming September 28.

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de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik's adaptation of "Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates.

We also hear her telling her side of the story, insisting that Marilyn Monroe doesn't exist. The trailer for Andrew Dominik's Blonde — an adaptation of the novel by Joyce Carol Oates — is a dark look at the greatest hits of Marilyn Monroe's career. We see Monroe (Ana de Armas) performing "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" and making waves on red carpets.

On Thursday, Netflix released the first full-length trailer of "Blonde," showing Monroe tormented by fame. "I know you're supposed to get used to it, but I just ...

I’m extremely respectful to the dress and what it means to American history. Based on Joyce Carol Oates' bestselling novel, "Blonde" "boldly reimagines the complicated life of icon Marilyn Monroe," according to the Netflix synopsis. Ripley’s, known for its archive of pop culture memorabilia, refuted Morrissette's allegations in a press release on June 16. It was like skin on her body," said Morrissette. In a conversation with a reporter, she adds: "Marilyn doesn't exist. "Every scene is inspired by an existing photograph," de Armas shared.

Netflix released the official trailer for the NC-17 rated film "Blonde," starring Ana de Armas as the iconic late actress Marilyn Monroe.

"Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible." "It's depictions of situations that are ambiguous." "It's not like depictions of happy sexuality," Andrew explained. "Blonde's" journey to the big screen was a long one, with the film facing pushback after receiving an NC-17 rating, which shocked the director. "Marilyn doesn't exist," she continues. "But I just can't."

The NC-17-rated flick, which will premiere in competition on the Lido at this year's Venice film festival, is one of the most anticipated films of the fall ...

Kiwi filmmaker Dominik wrote and directed the film based on the bestselling novel of the same name by five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates, and the film blends fact and fiction to reimagine the life of Monroe, exploring the split between the Hollywood icon’s public and private life. The NC-17-rated flick, which will premiere in competition on the Lido at this year’s Venice film festival, is one of the most anticipated films of the fall season. Netflix has dropped the official trailer for Blonde, the highly-anticipated Andrew Dominik-directed biopic starring Ana de Armas as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.

No matter how many times the story of the enigmatic Marilyn Monroe is retold, audiences will be captivated by just the suggestion of seeing her onscreen one ...

Directed by Andrew Dominik, best known for his work on Killing Them Softly and The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, both starring Brad Pitt, Blonde is said to have been a passion project of the filmmaker's for years. Oates was inspired to write her 2000 novel, one that the author felt was her "Moby Dick," The New Yorker says, when she first saw a photograph of a young pre-peroxide Norma Jeane Baker. The fifteen-year-old girl dreamed of seeing herself on the silver screen, but her longing to be truly loved was Marilyn Monroe's ultimate dream. For six decades people have tried to decipher the actress's life through her number of films, relationships, word-of-mouth accounts of her erratic behavior and the lustrous images. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible.” Upon the release of the full trailer for Netflix's film Blonde, a blend of fiction and surreal elements of the Hollywood icon's life, the official key art poster was revealed. Again, nothing sells the tragic story of a woman like the NC-17 promise of beauty and desire.

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married for less than a year before divorcing, but the two remained friends until her untimely death.

At the time, officials ruled her death as a probable suicide. At the time, the couple could not have a church ceremony due to the fact that they had both been previously married and divorced. DiMaggio, who happened to be on set, was reportedly furious, causing the two to fight in public. On Aug. 5, 1962, Monroe died from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home. The two were only married for nine months. Since it was an elopement, Monroe did not wear a traditional wedding gown.

From the 195's to the 1960s, discover Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio's style during their courthouse wedding and press tour honeymoon.

During their marriage, Monroe and DiMaggio were often seen together in similarly sharp outfits. In February 1954, after their wedding and immediate 10-day honeymoon period, Monroe and DiMaggio continued their romance in Tokyo, which was spent on a press tour, including a moment to visit local sights like a fishing village, where the “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” star wore a sleeveless color-blocked belted dress with a striped scarf in her hair. Upon leaving San Francisco City Hall in January 1954, immediately following her marriage to DiMaggio, Monroe wore a black button-up jacket topped with a white fur collar and a bejeweled bow.

“I play 'Marilyn Monroe,'” Ana de Armas says in the new trailer for “Blonde,” an adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name.

“I know you’re supposed to get used to it, but I just can’t,” she explains. “I’m still her when the camera is rolling. The film centers on the complicated relationship Norma Jeane Baker aka Marilyn Monroe (de Armas) has with fame.

Netflix's Blonde, a biopic about Marilyn Monroe staring Ana de Armas, has its first trailer and lets the star tell her own, slightly fictionalized, ...

One thing that’s particularly notable about Netflix’s movie is that it’s an adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name, rather than a standard retelling of Monroe’s life. The trailer seems to have a, now familiar, biopic set up of Marilyn remembering her life just before she goes on stage for some big performance. Blonde is set to be released Netflix on Sept. 28.

Ana de Armas is taking on the iconic role of Marilyn Monroe in Netflix's Blonde film and the resemblance is uncanny. See pictures of the actress in ...

She's one of many celebrities who have taken on the role of Monroe, and she threw herself into the job. See pictures of the actress in character side-by-side with the real-life blonde bombshell Ana de Armas Recreating Marilyn Monroe in Niagara

A few days from now, August 4, will mark the 60th death anniversary of one of the biggest stars of Hollywood. She was found dead of a drug overdose in her ...

In spite of all her success, she was a victim of a marketplace built and run by men. By the time she was shooting for her last film The Misfits (1961) she was barely in a condition to work. Every intimate moment, every careless word was recorded; at some point the Mafia was involved, and accusations of her being a communist (a black mark in Cold War-era America) were bandied about. She was married at 16 to James Dougherty and working in a factory, when a photographer turned her into a pin-up girl. It is typical of showbiz make-believe, that from her name (Norma Jean Mortenson) to her dazzling blonde hair, there was a lot that was fake about the woman. It was her statue, Forever Marilyn, in the classic skirt-billowing pose (From The Seven Year Itch, 1955) that was sculpted by John Seward Johnson in 2011 and put up in Palm Springs a year later.

Netflix released a new trailer for Blonde, revealing more details of the film starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Read on to know more.

Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen.” As the trailer progresses, Monroe is shown venting out her frustration on set and almost crying while pushing her way through a crowd of press and fans. The trailer ends with Monroe saying, “Marilyn doesn’t exist.

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe's tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, ...

Dominik has said the film will be “critical of American sacred cows”, including Kennedy, and that “there’s something in it to offend everyone”. It is evident that the film will push the limits. In the novel, death comes “hurtling toward her” in the form of a man “without passion and without pity”, an assassin. The novel, Oates wrote in a preface, was a “radically distilled ‘life’ of Marilyn Monroe”. By radically distilled, she explained, she meant that she had been highly selective, used real-life facts and characters – she credited my biography as being one of her main sources – but freely imagined much else. Will the coming film be an indulgent wallow in her sex life and in conspiratorial fantasising about her death, or deliver something worthwhile? Early in the book, Norma Jeane is raped by a Hollywood studio mogul who is allotted the name “Mr Z”. The rape scene is graphically written, sparing no detail. Later, when she finds fame, she marries first “the Ex-Athlete” and then “the Playwright” – transparent references to Monroe’s husbands Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. Why do I call Oates’ “fictionalised” tale of dalliance with the Kennedys “historical libel”? Credible information does suggest that Kennedy dallied with Monroe. His brother Robert, research indicates, also had some sort of covert connection to her. Since its publication, the appetite for all things Monroe – in particular the seamier side of her legacy – has only grown more voracious. Kim Kardashian, whose stunt it was to wear the Monroe dress at the Met, responded to criticism for having worn a deceased woman’s clothing by insisting, bizarrely, that she had “so much respect” for her. She was a founder member of the Hollywood branch of Sane, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In May, a portrait of a woman sold at auction in New York for $195m (£157m): a record for an artwork by an American artist and by any artist in the 20th century. Yet 60 years after she died, Monroe’s vivid presence in the world’s culture – only Diana, Princess of Wales rivals her hold over the public imagination – does not allow for nuance.

The new Blonde trailer teases that Marilyn Monroe's life was a nightmare dipped in sequins.

I want to go see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.” As Monroe notes in the trailer’s closing line, “Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen.” And yet, in the nearly 60 years since her death, audiences have been too intoxicated with that silver screen lie to ever let it go. Last year’s Spencer was by far the best biopic made to date about Princess Diana. The picture provides a scathing microcosm for her torments, if albeit in a highly fictionalized context. Eventually she demurs, “I guess I was discovered.” Yet Monroe’s answer is crosscut with a flashback that is clearly about to descend into the horrific: a young Norma Jeane Mortenson is approached in her memory by a far older and leering Hollywood producer after being cornered in his office. With that said, it remains an open question whether audiences want to see things from that perspective. We of course will have to reserve judgment on Blonde until after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and it is screened for critics around the world.

New trailer for forthcoming 'Blonde' exposes Marilyn Monroe's greatest triumph and defeat: being Marilyn Monroe.

It’s a particular phenomenon that’s even been dubbed “The Marilyn Monroe Effect”. “I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. In character, De Armas blinks away her tears, stares down her reflection, and transforms from her tortured self into Hollywood’s most famous “blonde bombshell”. In it, Monroe (played by Ana De Armas) sits in front of a dresser, crying. Forty-two seconds in, and we realise who “she” is.

The trailer of "Blonde", which is the biopic of Marilyn Monroe, has been released. The movie stars Ana de Armas, who is playing Norma Jean (Marilyn Monroe).

In one extraordinary scene in the film, Marilyn looks at herself in the mirror. It is clear that the actress is uncomfortable and fed up with her life. In the trailer, Monroe says she never got a start and fame came knocking at her door and had been stalking her ever since.

Many viewers are taking to social media to say they can hear her Cuban/Spanish accent coming through in the trailer for the Marilyn Monroe biopic.

"The first question was always, 'What was Norma Jeane feeling here?' We wanted to tell the human side of her story." "Every scene is inspired by an existing photograph. a bit disappointed as it looks good besides that." She was an icon to all." While another added: "it looks good with no sound on. Such a god actress and boy does she look and behave like her."

The new Marilyn Monroe biopic "Blonde" on Netflix shows the real Marilyn Monroe beneath all the glitz. The movie's first trailer, which feat.

One thing that’s particularly notable about Netflix’s movie is that it’s an adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name, rather than a standard retelling of Monroe’s life. The biopic setup of Marilyn reliving her life shortly before taking the stage for a significant performance appears to be present in the clip. The movie’s first trailer, which features Ana de Armas as Marilyn and depicts the struggles the celebrity has with her own stardom, appeared on Thursday. On September 28, Netflix will release Blonde.

Ana de Armas transforms into Marilyn Monroe for the new Netflix film, “Blonde” and fans are losing it. Jamie Lee Curtis comments on the actress' appearance.

A few weeks ago, de Armas shared another Instagram post dedicated to Blonde, detailing the vision for the film which was “to present a version of Marilyn Monroe’s life through her lens…to experience what it actually felt like to not only be Marilyn, but also Norma Jeane,” she wrote. “Marilyn Monroe doesn’t exist,” the star whispers in the film. Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen.” ❤️,” another: “You are Marilyn 💕.” The Knives Out actress shocked fans with her astonishing resemblance to the Hollywood bombshell, complete with blonde hair, Monroe’s signature mole, and sultry makeup. Even Jamie Lee Curtis joined the conversation, weeks after getting super candid about first impressions of her former costar.