In her first major feature film role, Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde.’ Ana de Armas, star of the upcoming film ‘Blonde,’ went through an emotional transformation to play Marilyn Monroe, according to her interview with Empire magazine. De Armas reveals that she had to shave her head in order to get into character, as she was surprised at how much Monroe’s hair meant to her character.
“He wanted the world to experience what it actually felt like to not only be Marilyn, but also Norma Jeane,” she explained. “I found that to be the most daring, unapologetic, and feminist take on her story that I had ever seen.”
Ana de Armas said, “read Joyce’s novel, studied hundreds of photographs, videos, audio recordings, films — anything I could get my hands on.”
“Every scene is inspired by an existing photograph. We’d pore over every detail in the photo and debate what was happening in it,” de Armas shared. “The first question was always, ‘What was Norma Jeane feeling here?’ We wanted to tell the human side of her story. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible.”
