Audiences ‘Don’t Get’ That My Marilyn Monroe Film Isn’t a Biopic

• Ana de Armas believes people didn’t realize Blonde wasn’t a biography.
• The Netflix film based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 book divided fans.
• De Armas, 34, responds in Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series.

Ana de Armas believes people didn’t realize Blonde wasn’t a biography.

The Netflix film based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 book divided fans. De Armas, 34, responds in Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series.

Eddie Redmayne, who was interviewed alongside de Armas, stated The Danish Girl was based on a real person, Lili Elbe, but a fictitious novel.

The Good Nurse actress, 40, stated, “Our screenplay was based on that book. I find it difficult when portraying a fictionalized version of a real person.

“We all have photographic memories of Marilyn, so we assume we know what happened. The film gives a new interpretation of those photographs, blended with the book’s plot,” said de Armas.

“The emotional reality in the picture is so intense that it’s impossible to tell it’s not a biography,” she said. I’ve been told, “You missed this portion of her life” and “She wasn’t just unhappy or melancholy.” I respond, “I know, but we’re not presenting that narrative.”

De Armas reminded Redmayne, who featured in My Week with Marilyn, that Blonde must depict “the evil side”

“Because,” she said, “even though it’s a fictitious novel and movie, it’s real. You don’t die at 36 if everything is wonderful.”

Andrew Dominik spoke about why American moviegoers “hated” Blonde at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia.

“We live in a period where it’s crucial to showcase women as powerful, and they want to recast Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Dominik stated Monroe couldn’t be used because “she’s dead.”

“The movie doesn’t matter. What they mean is that the film exploited their memories of her, which is fair. But that’s the entire point of the movie,” he added. “It’s attempting to flip the iconography of her life inside out, but they don’t want to see that.”

Netflix has Blonde.

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