[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] David Moye (HuffPost) writes concerning the casting of Cuban-born Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe within the upcoming Netflix biopic, Blonde. The movie will likely be launched on September 23, 2022.
The casting of Cuban-born Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe within the upcoming Netflix biopic, “Blonde,” has induced some Twitter customers to enter a tizzy, however she is getting help from the place it counts: the long-lasting actor’s property.
Though Monroe’s property hasn’t formally approved the movie, Marc Rosen, president of leisure at Genuine Manufacturers Group (ABG), which owns the property, informed Selection he approves of de Armas within the title function.
“Marilyn Monroe is a singular Hollywood and popular culture icon that transcends generations and historical past,” Rosen mentioned. “Any actor that steps into that function is aware of they’ve huge sneakers to fill. Primarily based on the trailer alone, it appears like Ana was an incredible casting alternative as she captures Marilyn’s glamour, humanity and vulnerability. We will’t wait to see the movie in its entirety!”
When the movie’s second trailer was launched final week, some Twitter customers commented that they discovered de Armas’ accent distracting, in response to TMZ.
The movie is predicated on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the identical identify. De Armas informed Netflix Queue that she ready for the function by finding out “tons of of images, movies, audio recordings, movies — something I might get my fingers on.”
She informed The Instances of London in January 2021 that she spent months working with coaches attempting to sound like Monroe ― and it wasn’t simple. “It took me 9 months of dialect teaching, and working towards and a few ADR periods [to get the accent right]. It was an enormous torture, so exhausting. My mind was fried.” ADR stands for automated dialogue alternative, the post-production course of the place an actor’s strains are rerecorded.
The movie will likely be launched globally on Sept. 23. Director Andrew Dominik informed Vulture that it has “one thing in it to offend everybody.”
See trailer right here:
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