‘Blonde’ Star Ana de Armas on Getting to Know Marilyn Monroe

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When Cuban-Spanish actor Ana de Armas was asked to play Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s Netflix feature “Blonde,” she spent months preparing and studying for the role. “It was very important to …

“My idea of Marilyn in the past was quite elementary,” she said at a press conference. “I knew her films and little more. To get to know her story was fascinating for me. She represented the dream that we all want to be. So what could go so wrong? I now respect her much more, and understand her better and could humanize her much more, and give her more credit for the effort she put into things.”

“The advantage of doing that with someone so photographed is that you have so many images that have meaning that you can now give them a new meaning,” he said. “But this is probably some people’s objections to the film because we are screwing around with people’s memories.” The director was asked about the place of “lust” in the film. “For me personally there’s no lust involved in making the film,” said Dominik. “It’s a remarkably unsexual film. It uses nudity to express rage, for example.”

The role was a huge opportunity for De Armas, she said. She worked in Spain for several years, but had not been offered major roles there. She bears no grudges though. “I would love to work here again. I haven’t been offered those opportunities [in Spain]. In Spain, I don’t think it’s that people don’t take me seriously as an actress, but I spent several years on TV [‘El Internado’] in a school uniform. When I went to Panama to shoot a film, it was the first time I thought about the U.S.

 

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