'How Ana de Armas Became the Most Famous Woman in the World'
Introducing Ana de Armas for AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2022 - our new issue has arrived.
Here, de Armas discusses playing Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s much anticipated adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde ⚡️ https://t.co/YAB3mMTb8i
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- De Armas recalled how the crew bought a big card for Marilyn and everyone signed it. “Then we went to the cemetery and put it on her grave. We were asking for permission in a way. Everyone felt a huge responsibility, and we were very aware of the side of the story we were going to tell - the story of Norma Jeane, the person behind this character, Marilyn Monroe. Who was she really?”
- That cavernous split between public and private self is the focus of Blonde - “The story of an unloved and unwanted child who became the world’s most wanted woman,” as [director Andrew] Dominik has put it.
- Dominik began writing the script in 2008 and actresses such as Naomi Watts and Jessica Chastain were once attached.
- Dominik was "fetishistic about the minutiae", having more than 100 costume changes and gaving crew dress in period costumes.
- "Andrew never stopped filming, so he dressed the sound person, the prop guy, my dialect coach, all in period costume too, so the camera could follow me anywhere. And anywhere I turned was ready to be filmed because we were shooting in her real houses.”
- "“Inspiration is a very different thing from taking. If there’s a reason she’s still not resting, it’s that she’s been taken from so much. I knew as soon as I met Andrew that he was going to take care of her. So for the film to go places like the point of view of the abortion, a depressed mother and how a child deals with that, the desire of all these men over Marilyn, the way they look at her like meat - like a room service delivery - and, yes, the way she allows herself to fall in love and be disappointed again, it’s unapologetic and brave and feminist."
- De Armas went straight from Blonde to Bond and her first few takes came out in Marilyn's whispery voice, which she also duscussed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Star of #Blonde Ana de Armas tells Stephen that, if you look close enough, you can see a little of Marilyn in her character from the latest Bond movie. pic.twitter.com/rELZYTGUHX
- The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) September 20, 2022
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