Ana de Armas: My Marilyn Monroe film is ‘difficult’ for audiences to understand, why?

“The emotional truth is so powerful withinside the film that it`s difficult to break up that it’s far now not a biopic,” Ana de Armas said about Blonde`s portrayal of Marilyn Monroe

Ana de Armas thinks audiences had a troubling knowledge her Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde wasn’t meant to be a true biopic.

That being said, the controversial Netflix film, loosely based entirely on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel of Equal Call with resourcefulness in use, divided audiences. In a contemporary installment of Variety’s “Still on the Actors” series, de Armas, 34, addresses the criticisms.

Eddie Redmayne, who has become paired with de Armas for the interview, said he had a similar instance collectively alongside together along with his 2015 film The Danish Girl, which has become based totally mostly on a real person, Lili Elbe, however, has become a version of a fictionalized book.

The Good Nurse actor, 40, said, “Our script has become a version of that book. I find out it is complex whilst there can be an actual person and you’re playing a version of a fictionalized version. I find out it complex to war thru what truth I have become looking for.”

Said de Armas, “There is that this photographic reminiscence that all and sundry have of Marilyn. So we expect we understand what has emerged as occurring at that time. The movie is giving a one-of-a-kind interpretation to the one`s images, combined with the tale of the book.”

Regarding the film “I think it has been difficult for the intended market to know about the film; the emotional truth within the film is so powerful that it is hard to break down that it is not a biopic,” she continued. Although “I hear, ‘You ignored this part of her life,’ and ‘She’s no longer just sad or depressed.'” And I’m like, ‘I understand, though, we’re not telling that story.’

De Armas moreover cautioned Redmayne — who starred withinside the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn, in which Michelle Williams carried out the long-lasting actress — it changed into an “important” 

“Because,” she added, “no matter the fact that it`s a fictional ee-ebook and movie, it modified into true, what happened. You do now no longer become vain at 36 years antique if the whole thing changed into exquisite and perfect.”

Blonde director Andrew Dominik presently spoke at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia about why he felt American audiences “hated” the movie.

He said, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, “We`re living in a time in which it’s miles important to present women as empowered, and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. That’s what they want to see. And in case you at the moment are not showing them that, it upsets them.”

Dominik moreover said the movie couldn’t be exploiting Monroe because of the fact that “she’s vain.”

Let us also tell you that “the film no longer makes any difference one way or the other. What they clearly suggest is that the film exploited their memory, their picture graph, that’s quite honest. But that’s the whole idea of the film,” he said. “It’s looking to take the iconography of her life and deploy it in the context of something else, it’s looking to take themes that you’re familiar with, and intrinsically change because of it. But that’s not what he wants to see.”