Ana de Armas and her first and impressive images as Marilyn Monroe for Blonde, from Netflix

Blonde, Andrew Dominik’s Netflix adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel already has its first preview of just over a minute in which the actress can be seen as Ana de Armas in the skin of Marilyn Monroe.

The preview also reveals the release date of the film that the Australian filmmaker has been working on for more than a decade: September 23 on the streaming platform. Previously, it will make its way through the Venice Film Festival.

In the first trailer, we find a fictionalized Monroe – true to the style of Oates’ work, edited 22 years ago and a career finalist for the Pulitzer Prize – in her dressing room, visibly dejected as a makeup artist assures her that “she’s coming ”, in a clear allusion to “the other Marilyn”, the one who changed her face when she was in contact with her audience and the flashes that awaited her.

Later, We get a glimpse of milestones in the actress’s career, such as the screening of Howard Hawks’ film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Billy Wilder’s The Seventh Year Itch.

Dominik claimed to be “very proud” of the film, which began filming in August 2019, had an impasse due to the pandemic, and concluded in July 2021. Simultaneously and amid the pandemic, the director of The Assassination of Jesse James and Kill Them Softly devoted himself to filming the documentary by musician Nick Cave, This Much I Know to Be True.

“Netflix is ​​allowing me to release the movie I wanted to make, and even with the NC-17 rating, I think it’s pretty good,” Dominik had declared in dialogue with Collider in mid-April, in an interview in which he elaborated on the focus of the story he wrote with the pages of Oates as background material. “[Marilyn] is deeply traumatized, and that trauma requires a split between a public self and a private self, which is everyone’s story but with a famous person, which often plays out publicly, in ways that can cause trauma. additional”.

The cast of Blonde is completed with the names of Adrian Brody’s Arthur Miller, Bobby Cannavale as Joe DiMaggio, Julianne Nicholson as Gladys Pearl Baker (Monroe’s mother), and Caspar Phillipson as John F. Kennedy.

The soundtrack of the film was in charge precisely by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. “That made me very happy,” the filmmaker told this medium.

“It was a torture”: the confession of Ana de Armas

“I tried! -said the interpreter born in Cuba- It only took me nine months of training and practice of dialects. It was great torture, very exhausting. My brain was fried,” Ella said. On the other hand, the story allowed her to reflect on the role of women in the industry. “In general, it’s very easy to draw parallels between how things were in the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and today. And, above all, with how it is very difficult to achieve it if you do not have a solid base and your family to support you”, remarked the actress