Whether it brought her a sense of fulfilment or not is another matter.”įollowing on from Joyce Chopra’s underrated 2001 miniseries, Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is the second adaptation of the 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. She’s managed to be one of the most enduring cultural icons today. And you know, in spite of all of that, she’s created this vast amount of work. Anyone who’s genuinely in the business for the right reasons - a compulsion to create and make work in whatever capacity - understands her yearning and her plight. “He didn’t experience the glory and in a way Marilyn Monroe didn’t either because she was lost in mental and emotional suffering. He’s probably the most pre-eminent artist of his time but didn’t sell one work during his life. “Anyone with any sensitivity can see that.
“I think at the crux of it, she was a struggling artist,” says Adrien Brody, who plays Arthur Miller in Blonde. She’s the inspiration for everything from Elton John’s song Candle in the Wind to Nicolas Roeg’s film Insignificance to Pauline Boty’s 1963 painting The Only Blonde in the World. In addition to the thousands of documentaries and biographies that have covered Monroe’s abusive childhood, three failed marriages, and a career beset with predators, she has been the inspiration for at least three operas, hundreds of songs, graphic novels, paintings, and around a dozen plays, including the semi-autobiographical After the Fall and Finishing the Picture, as written by Monroe’s former husband, Arthur Miller. I worked with Ana de Armas and I was completely blown away by her work and her interpretation of this character You don’t see them age and get wrinkles and have more failed marriages.” And then, of course, when someone dies at such a young age, they live in that beauty for all time. I think it was the people that she was connected to in her life.
“She has something you can’t name,” suggests Julianne Nicholson, who plays Monroe’s emotionally unbalanced mother, Gladys. Some 60 years after Marilyn Monroe’s death, Blonde, the latest screen iteration of her short tragic life is to be released by Nexflix.
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