'I knew I had a lot of work creating this icon. but I felt like I knew what was going on underneath, the core of who she was,' says Ana de Armas who portrays Marilyn Monroe in Netflix's 'Blonde.'
writer and director Andrew Dominik saw 2015's"Knock Knock," he knew that Cuban-born de Armas, who played one-half of the seductive and dangerous duo terrorizing Reeves, had what it took to portray screen icon Monroe.
De Armas began intensive voice training to mask her accent and capture Monroe's famous voice, even while shooting"Knives Out" in 2018. But one of her first tasks before shooting began in 2019 was to touch base with Monroe herself. Each day shooting"Blonde," de Armas would sit in the makeup chair for 3½ hours for the transformation into Monroe throughout each phase of her adult life. "There was one prosthetic on my forehead to cover my hairline. The rest was was just makeup and tons of eyelashes." says de Armas, who would slip into the chair at 4:30 a.m. and sleep with"someone holding my head up to do the makeup. But I would do the lips every day. That was part of the process I had to do.
"We all felt it because it was so powerful. She's all over Los Angeles, even in the car I was driving, which is the same she drove, in the house where she lived and the room where she died," says de Armas."It's a very intense, heavy story. But I think it was beautiful as well. Because I felt closer to her.""Blonde" can be harrowing to watch as Monroe struggles through well-documented personal problems with the men in her life.
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