Marilyn Monroe likely wouldn't want to hear what 'Blonde' director Andrew Dominik thinks about her.
For Cuban native Ana de Armas, playing Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe in Netflix’s ‘Blonde’ was about honoring the truth behind tragedy.
“Now, to me, that’s the most important thing. It’s not the rest. It’s not the moments of strength. OK, she wrested control away from the men at the studio, because, you know, women are just as powerful as men. But that’s really looking at it through a lens that’s not so interesting to me. I’m more interested in how she feels, I’m interested in what her emotional life was like.”The Times’ Justin Chang noticed how star Ana de Armas was affected by Dominik’s approach.
“Radiantly sympathetic in scene after scene, she delivers a strong, intensely felt performance in a movie that doesn’t begin to earn it, that insists on squeezing her sometimes eerie channeling of Monroe’s image into the puniest possible dramatic mold,” Chang wrote. He called Dominik’s movie “dazzling, depressing and fatally incurious.”“Even the levitational pleasure of that ‘Some Like It Hot’ scene can’t last,” Chang wrote.