“I spend a lot of time in director jail, then my friend Brad Pitt comes down and talks to the parole board and convinces them to let me out. Then I just go out and re-offend again, I’m incorrigible…
The hour-long career conversation held in Jeddah focused mostly on the making and reception of Dominik’s latest, “Blonde,” adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ eponymous fiction book on Marilyn Monroe’s life, and starring Ana de Armas. “I was expecting critical success and that no one would see the film. That’s what I’m kind of used to, films having a positive critical reaction and people not seeing them. ‘Blonde’ was the opposite, at least in America. They hated the movie, they were angry about it.
“We’re living in a time where it’s important to present women as empowered and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. That’s what they want to see, and if you’re not showing them that, it upsets them. Americans don’t like when you monkey with their myths too much, they very often jump to the solution without actually looking at any of the trauma.”
The film, which famously took the director over a decade to make, only became possible when Netflix jumped on board, something Dominik also attributes to his friendship with Pitt. Dominik’s 2007’s “The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford” was one of Pitt’s earliest producing efforts and their first collaboration. They went on to work together again on 2012’s neo-noir “Killing Them Softly” and “Blonde.
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