Ana de Armas Calls Playing The Role of Marilyn Monroe 'A Miracle'

Courtney Howard Sound designer/re-recording mixer Leslie Shatz has used his finely tuned skills to service many movies, from cutting Yoda’s dialogue in “The Empire Strikes Back” to collaborating with Toto on David Lynch’s “Dune.” Yet with “Blonde” (now streaming on Netflix), based on author Joyce Carol Oates’ fictionalized look at Marilyn Monroe’s life and death, he and filmmaker Andrew Dominik (“Killing Them Softly,” “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) reunite a third time to create a striking sonic experience. “Andrew’s very untraditional in terms of sound,” Shatz says. “He wants sounds to have an emotional context.”

Despite "Blonde" topping the Netflix chart since its streaming release on Wednesday, the film is facing criticism from viewers.  "Blonde," which is based on a fictional take on the life of Marilyn Monroe, is played by Cuban actress Ana de Armas.  The film’s director, Andrew Dominik, is receiving heat, as subscribers view his work as "hideous," while being "exploitative" and "sexist." Critics took to Twitter to express their review of the biopic, as one user writes, "Marilyn Monroe deserves more than #Blonde." Marilyn Monroe deserves more than #Blonde pic.twitter.com/llpU5KhXxC— Rebecca Rideal (@RebeccaRideal) September 29, 2022 "I had the extreme misfortune of watching ‘Blonde’ on Netflix last night and let me tell you that movie is so anti-abortion, so sexist, so exploitative," Steph Herold, an abortion researcher at the University of California, San Francisco tweeted. Despite "Blonde" topping the Netflix chart since its streaming release on Wednesday, the film is facing criticism from viewers.  (Getty Images) "Cannot recommend it LESS.

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2000 best seller of the same title by Joyce Carol Oates, is being rolled out on big and small screens by Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B. “Blonde,” rated NC-17, opened in select theaters Friday. It’s slated for national release on Sept. 23, and will stream globally via Netflix on Sept.

Few movie dramas in recent years have generated as much fevered online speculation as Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde.

Life under the microscope. Ana de Armas didn’t appreciate her relationship with ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck being scrutinized by the public.

Netflix film “Blonde.” The Andrew Dominik-directed drama is rated a rare and staggering NC-17, and is full of sexual scenes and nudity. De Armas, 34, is well aware that certain intimate scenes will circulate on the internet, however, she feels that there is nothing she can do about it.“I know what’s going to go viral, and it’s disgusting,” the Cuban actress told Variety in a recent profile.The “Knives Out” star continued: “It’s upsetting just to think about it.

Ana de Armas needed to convince Netflix that she could be Marilyn Monroe. She was already the first choice of director Andrew Dominik, whose film “Blonde,” a surrealist vision of the life and death of the screen legend, had been reportedly cast with various leading ladies before alighting on de Armas, but “Knives Out” — the hit film in which the previously little-known performer sat at the center of the mystery — hadn’t yet come out. In 2019, few knew her name. De Armas brought her accent coach to the in-person screen test with Netflix. “I hadn’t had the training and the voice and everything,” says de Armas, who was born and raised in Cuba. “So my coach was crouching on the floor, under the table.” The stakes were high. “I just knew that everything we did that day was going to be the definitive test of the movie to be greenlit or not.” The scene was one in which Monroe pleads with husband Joe DiMaggio to let her move to New York so that she can “start from zero, away from Hollywood,” de Armas recalls; passion had to enter Monroe’s voice, all as the woman under the table fed de Armas the proper pronunciations of the lines.

Ana de Armas is stepping out to promote her new Netflix movie.

Ana De Armas dons a casual look while arriving at JFK airport in New York City on Friday (September 16).