Inside Ana de Armas’s Stunning Transformation Into Marilyn Monroe

It takes a lot to earn a 14-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, but when filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s Blonde did so earlier this month, the wheels on the Oscar bus officially started turning. Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the film stars Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, in a fictionalized look at the world’s most iconic woman’s complex interior life. She exists as not one but two women in the film, as she did in life: the intelligent, desperate-to-be-loved Norma Jean, raised by a mentally ill mother and living on the fringes of mid-century Los… Read Full Article