Ana de Armas would possibly not put on a real get dressed of Marilyn Monroe’s in “Blonde,” however she does a excellent activity of filling her footwear.
That’s in keeping with the primary trailer for the approaching Netflix biopic in regards to the iconic intercourse image, launched on Thursday.
The “respectable teaser” presentations de Armas channeling a few of Monroe’s most famed moments, together with her rendition of “Diamonds Are A Woman’s Absolute best Good friend” from “Gents Want Blondes.”
Then again, de Armas isn’t observed making a song “Glad Birthday” to John F. Kennedy.
The movie’s synopsis describes it as a daring reimagination of the lifetime of “one in all Hollywood’s maximum enduring icons,” from a unstable early life as Norma Jeane Mortenson, thru her upward thrust to stardom and romantic entanglements.
De Armas informed Netflix Queue that director Andrew Dominik informed her he sought after the international “to enjoy what it if truth be told felt like not to best be Marilyn, but additionally Norma Jeane.”
She added, “I discovered that to be essentially the most bold, unapologetic, and feminist tackle her tale that I had ever observed.”
The movie is in keeping with the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the similar identify. De Armas mentioned she ready for the position via finding out “loads of pictures, movies, audio recordings, movies — anything else I may get my arms on.”
Each and every scene within the movie is encouraged via an current {photograph}, and de Armas mentioned she and Dominik would pore over each and every element in each and every photograph and debate what used to be taking place in it.
“The primary query used to be all the time, ‘What used to be Norma Jeane feeling right here?’ We would have liked to inform the human aspect of her tale. Reputation is what made Marilyn essentially the most visual particular person on the planet, nevertheless it additionally made Norma essentially the most invisible.”
The NC-17 movie debuts at the streaming platform Sept. 23, and Dominik informed Vulture that it has “one thing in it to offend everybody.”
You’ll be able to see the trailer underneath.