Ana de Armas asked for Marilyn Monroe’s ‘blessing’ at the foot of her grave before filming ‘Blonde’

The good reception of Anne of Arms after your presentation at the Venice Film Festival con Blondethe Netflix movie where he plays Marilyn Monroeshowed that the interpretation of the Hispanic-Cuban actress in the skin of the Hollywood icon is superb.

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All the work on the feature film, which will hit the content platform on September 28, is already paying off, but it started long before shooting. Specifically, when the team visited the grave of the missing artist to “ask her permission”.

It was Ana de Armas herself who revealed this detail in conversation with AnAnother: “We had a huge card that we all put messages for her on. So, we went to the cemetery and put it on her headstone. We were kind of asking her if we could do the movie.”

The actress confessed that both she and the team felt a lot of pressure for this project: “We all feel the great responsibility that it is and we were clear about the part of the story we wanted to tell: that of Norma Jeane, the person behind the character of Marylin Monroe” .

In addition, she spoke about her relationship with the character: “I am Ana. But emotionally? The weight stayed with me. There was no way to disconnect when I got home, because I had to study the lines for the next day or I was talking on the phone with Andrew Dominik (director of the film) until midnight. I dreamed that I had long conversations with her.”

“I don’t want it to sound like I’m saying ‘Marilyn and I were connected’ at all. But I thought about her so much that some days I would come home to dinner and while I was doing the dishes I would cry and cry because I had a terrible feeling: I knew I couldn’t fix it,” he confessed.

Who was going to tell that Ana in 2007, when she was around twenty years old and became known in our country thanks to the series The intershipthat Marilyn Monroe would change his life.