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Ana de Armas wows as Marilyn Monroe in photo recreations following Blonde’s triumphant premiere-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
The film received a 14-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival.
The biopic of Hollywood’s most famous star comes out on Netflix later this month (Picture: Getty/AP/Netflix)
Stunning new pictures of Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in Netflix biopic Blonde have been released after the movie’s triumphant world premiere at Venice Film Festival.
Blonde reportedly received a 14-minute standing ovation from its audience following the screening on Thursday, causing the actress to break down in tears as she blew kisses to those nearest her.
Described as a ‘fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe’, the film follows the late Hollywood icon – born Norma Jeane Mortenson – as she deals with the pressures of universal fame.
Also in the cast are Adrien Brody and Bobby Cannavale, who play the star’s third and second husbands, playwright Arthur Miller and baseball star Joe DiMaggio – or ‘The Playwright’ and ‘The Ex-Athlete’.
Caspar Phillipson features as The President, John F Kennedy, who Monroe famously serenaded on his birthday in 1962 in a skin-tight sparkling nude dress, which Kim Kardashian wore to this year’s Met Gala.
Other actors in the film include Lucy De Vito, Garret Dillahunt, Julianne Nicholson, Scoot McNairy and Xavier Samuel.
Monroe in 1953 film Niagra (Picture: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)
De Armas in her faithful recreation (Picture: Netflix via AP)
Bobby Cannavale and De Armas as then husband and wife Joe DiMaggio and Monroe (Picture: Netflix via AP)
The couple spent a month together in Canada in 1953
Glimpses of de Armas as the star, and looking eerily like the late pop culture icon, have already been unveiled in the film’s trailers, but new photos have taken the recreation to a new level.
New photos show de Armas’s interpretation of perhaps Monroe’s most famos moment, posing above the subway grill in a white dress with a gust of wind blowing up the skirt as she beams at the camera and holds it down.
There are also stills of her with both husbands, with de Armas and Cannavale sitting next to one another on a window seat, just like a series of real-life pictures of Monroe and DiMaggio during their month together in Alberta, Canada in August 1953.
Adrien Brody plays the star’s third husband, playwright Arthur Miller (Picture: Netflix via AP)
The real-life couple in New York in 1957 (Picture: Sam Shaw/Shaw Family Archives/Getty Images)
The couple married in 1954 and divorced the following year.
Oscar-winner Brody wears a dark striped shirt and glasses as Death of A Salesman scribe Miller, leaning on a wooden gate behind his onscreen wife in a blue and white polka dot sundress, clutching flowers.
The true inspiration for this shot happened in 1957, when the pair were not long married.
They would go on to divorce in 1961.
Some would-be viewers have criticised the 34-year-old’s accent as Monroe, with de Armas hailing from Cuba, but the Marilyn Monroe estate defended her casting as a ‘great casting choice as she captures Marilyn’s glamour, humanity and vulnerability’.
The moment everyone recognises, recreated (Picture: Netflix via AP)
It happened during the filming of The Seven Year Itch in 1954 (Picture: Bettmann Archive)
In preparation for the role, Ana reportedly spent nine months working with vocal coaches to perfect the accent of the star, who died in 1962 at the age of 36.
Speaking to The Times, she explained that the process of altering her accent had been a rather gruelling one.
‘It took me nine months of dialect coaching, and practising and some additional dialogue replacement sessions [to perfect the accent]. It was a big torture, so exhausting. My brain was fried.’
De Armas worked hard on her accent to appear as Monroe (Picture: Netflix via AP)
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The biopic is based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, which was first published in 2000, and previously adapted into a TV series in 2001, starring Poppy Montgomery.
Monroe, who was born in 1926, shared a birth year with the late Queen Elizabeth II, meeting the monarch just once at a premiere in London in 1956.
Blonde arrives on Netflix on September 28.
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