Ana de Armas takes the lead role in \u0027Blonde\u0027 — an \u0027emotional nightmare fairy\u002Dtale type movie\u0027 — based on a book by Joyce Carol Oates
“Playing Marilyn was groundbreaking. A Cuban playing Marilyn Monroe. I wanted it so badly. You see that famous photo of her and she is smiling in the moment, but that’s just a slice of what she was really going through at the time.”
And on set, in order to conceal her natural dark hair, she also wore a bald cap on set underneath her various gold and platinum wigs. Her daily hair and make-up regime took three and a half hours, though for Dominik, it sounds justified: talking recently to Screen International, he described de Armas’s work as “f–––––– amazing,” adding: “The one thing nobody’s going to complain about is Ana’s performance.
Oates, who is among a small number of interested parties to have seen the finished cut, described it as “startling, brilliant, very disturbing,” and characterized its tone as “hard to classify, not surreal but not totally realistic, not ‘horror’ but suffused with the dread of horror.
“Netflix are the only people that would pay for Blonde,” he said. “It would not exist without them.” All parties seem to be working on the assumption that even the finished film will be classified NC-17 in the United States – which, unlike a UK 18, can prove commercially ruinous, since many cinemas refuse to play the handful of films that earn them.
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