Ana de Armas Transforms Into Marilyn Monroe ☀️ Blonde

ANA DE ARMAS 👸 MARILYN ☀️ MARILYN MONROE - ANA DE ARMAS BLONDE=Cross “Blonde” off your Oscar predictions list for this year, as Netflix’s fictionalized telling of Marilyn Monroe’s life starring Ana de Armas will now release in 2022.
Directed by Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”), who also adapted the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, “Blonde” was one of the year’s most anticipated films by industry insiders and consumers. A specific release date in 2022 has not been set yet.
In development since 2010, actresses like Jessica Chastain and Naomi Watts were once attached to the project. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux stated in an interview with Deadline that he had invited “Blonde” to screen out-of-competition at this year’s festival, but Netflix declined.
Cuban actor de Armas has been a rising star in Hollywood for the past few years with memorable roles in “Blade Runner 2049” and “Knives Out,” for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. The film will also star Oscar-winner Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”), Emmy nominee Julianne Nicholson (HBO’s “Mare of Easttown”) and Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”).
Dominik has stated in past interviews that the film “has very little dialogue in it,” which could have made it difficult to navigate the upcoming awards season where the streamer would have bait-y contenders like the large ensemble “Don’t Look Up” from Adam McKay and the period drama “The Power of the Dog” from Jane Campion.
Netflix has an avalanche of projects waiting in the wings for awards consideration, many of which are undated but expected to drop in the calendar year. This includes the directorial debuts of Halle Berry (“Bruised”), Rebecca Hall (“Passing”), Jeymes Samuel (“The Harder They Fall”) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Tick, Tick…Boom!”), as well as a passion project from Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”) and a still-untitled feature from director Nora Fingscheidt starring Sandra Bullock.
“Blonde” is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tracey Landon, Brad Pitt and Scott Robertson.
No official future release date has been set for “Blonde.”
While Netflix’s 2021 original films lineup includes heavy hitters like Adam McKay’s star-studded comedy “Don’t Look Up,” one of the most anticipated titles for indie cinephiles is, without question, Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde.” The long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biographical drama is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel, which takes a fictionalized look at the inner life of the Hollywood icon. The project is the first narrative feature in nine years from “The Assassination of Jesse James” and “Killing Them Softly” director Dominik, who handpicked de Armas to be his leading lady. In an interview with The Times of London, the actress said she spent nearly a whole year perfecting Monroe’s accent.
“I tried! It only took me nine months of dialect coaching, and practicing, and some ADR sessions [rerecording dialogue after filming],” de Armas said of getting the voice just right. “It was a big torture, so exhausting. My brain was fried.”
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As for what it was like playing Monroe in a broader sense, de Armas added, “I had a lot of thoughts as a woman in the industry, and even in general, about how things from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s are so relatable to nowadays. And how if you don’t have a strong base, with your family and so on, it’s really hard to make it through — really hard.”
De Armas’ career has been on the rise for the last several years, from her supporting turn in “Blade Runner 2049” to her Golden Globe-nominated performance in Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out.” De Armas also has a key role in the upcoming James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die,” which is delayed once again to November 2021 because of the pandemic. “Blonde” gives de Armas the chance to lead her biggest project to date, and she is well aware of what it means to be a Cuban actress playing one of Hollywood’s most recognizable starlets.
“I only had to audition for Marilyn once and Andrew said ‘It’s you,’ but I had to audition for everyone else,” de Armas told Vanity Fair last year. “The producers. The money people. I always have people I needed to convince. But I knew I could do it. 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.”
De Armas isn’t the only actress who needed to spend significant time perfecting the voice accent of a famous real-life figure. Kristen Stewart is set to go into production on Pablo Larraín’s Princess Diana drama “Spencer” this year and told InStyle last fall that nailing the accent was an ongoing challenge.
“The accent is intimidating as all hell because people know that voice, and it’s so, so distinct and particular,” Stewart said. “I’m working on it now and already have my dialect coach.”
Netflix has not yet announced a release date for “Blonde.” Expect the film to arrive in the fall as part of the streaming giant’s 2021-22 awards slate.

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Дата на публикация: 9 януари, 2022
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