Ana De Armas Says Blonde Movie Set Was Haunted By Marilyn Monroe!

Ethan Shanfeld “Blonde” director Andrew Dominik has previously said he was unfamiliar with Marilyn Monroe’s filmography before adapting Joyce Carol Oates’ book about the late actor. Now, Dominik says Monroe starred in a “whole lot of movies that nobody really watches,” calling her famous romance film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” a movie about “well-dressed whores.” Dominik’s comments were part of an outtake from an interview with the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound Magazine. Journalist Christina Newland, who conducted the interview, posted the transcript on Twitter, in which Dominik asked, “Does anyone watch Marilyn Monroe movies?” Newland added in a follow-up tweet: “I do want to make sure I’m doing my due diligence here: [Dominik] did talk about and reference many of her films. He clearly had studied and watched everything: whether he liked it (bar ‘Some Like it Hot,’ which he loves) another story, evidently.”

Die Hard star stepped away from acting earlier this year after being diagnosed with aphasia – a condition that affects language and speech. Now, Bruce, 67, has become the first Hollywood star to sell his rights to the tech firm Deepcake, allowing his moving and talking image to be used in films and TV and for movie actors past and present to star on screen together. As revealed in the documentary Tech To The Future, the groundbreaking deal paves the way for dead performers to be brought back to life, with Bruce previously ‘starring’ in a Russian phone advert with engineers attaching his digitally-created head to a human body double.

Bruce Willis could feature alongside Marilyn Monroe in a Hollywood blockbuster with the magic of artificial intelligence. The 'Die Hard' star, who stepped away from acting earlier this year after being diagnosed with aphasia – a condition that affects language and speech – has become the first Hollywood star to sell his rights to the tech firm Deepcake, allowing his moving and talking image to be used in films and TV. Movie actors past and present are now able to star on screen together, as revealed in a new documentary 'Tech To The Future'.

's portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in (streaming Friday, September 30 on Netflix) is all anyone can talk about these days. But the movie, which chronicles Monroe's career as well as her tumultuous relationships, is just one of many modern interpretations of the late actor's life.

Ana de Armas bares it all in the upcoming movie Blonde and she expects the clips to go viral online, which she says is “upsetting just to think about.”

Liza Foreman When Cuban-Spanish actor Ana de Armas was asked to play Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s Netflix feature “Blonde,” she spent months preparing and studying for the role. “It was very important to discover the real woman and bring all of those elements together,” she said Saturday at the San Sebastian Film Festival. “My idea of Marilyn in the past was quite elementary,” she said at a press conference. “I knew her films and little more. To get to know her story was fascinating for me. She represented the dream that we all want to be. So what could go so wrong? I now respect her much more, and understand her better and could humanize her much more, and give her more credit for the effort she put into things.”

Ana de Armas finds it "disgusting" that her nude scenes from the highly anticipated Netflix film "Blonde" will most likely go viral on the internet. "Blonde," which is based on a fictional take the life of Marilyn Monroe, debuts on the streaming service Sept. 28.  Speaking to Variety, de Armas discussed candidly what her reaction will be once the nude scenes hit the internet. "I know what's going to go viral," the 34-year-old actress said, being the one to first address the scenes.

Ana de Armas understands the paparazzi circus that often surrounded Marilyn Monroe, because she's felt it too. In a new interview with , the  actress touched on the often «unsafe» and «dangerous» attention she received while dating Ben Affleck and why it drew her closer to Monroe.«I have never been someone that wants any attention that’s not about my work,» de Armas says of the intense focus on her romantic life. «So, when the attention is not about my work, it is upsetting, and it feels disrespectful, and it feels inappropriate, and it feels dangerous and unsafe.»She continues, «But, especially in this country, I don’t know how you can find protection. I don’t know how you can stop that from happening, other than leaving.» Though she didn't leave the country, de Armas did move to New York not long after her breakup with Affleck in 2021.

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.

Zack Sharf Ana de Armas is earning some of the best reviews of her career for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” and yet she’s well aware that it will be her nude scenes that end up getting the most exposure online. As the actor said during her Variety cover story interview, “I know what’s going to go viral, and it’s disgusting.” “Blonde” is set to stream globally on Netflix starting Sept. 28, which means viewers will have the ability to clip scenes from the film or take screenshots and share them online. De Armas expects her nude scenes to circulate widely online, but that reception to the film never scared her off from taking on the role of Monroe.

When it comes to biopics, they don’t get much more intensely intimate than Andrew Dominik‘s “Blonde.” And the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month confirmed that Ana de Armas expertly channels Marilyn Monroe in her performance. In fact, de Armas got so close to Monroe during the film’s production the actress attempted to contact the deceased starlet, in a way.

Ana de Armas is sharing all the details behind her extensive transformation into Marilyn Monroe for her new film, . ET's Matt Cohen spoke to de Armas at the film's Hollywood premiere, where she said she spent three hours in the hair and makeup chair to portray the blonde bombshell.«That was quite a journey every day,» the 34-year-old actress said about the physical transformation she underwent for the film.

Ana de Armas is opening up about her experience on the set of the highly anticipated Netflix film ‘Blonde’ and it seems things got a little strange. The Hollywood star revealed that she felt very close to Marilyn Monroe, while portraying the movie legend. “I truly believe that she was very close to us.