The film’s director, Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly), addressed the adults-only rating in February — the first of its kind for Netflix — telling Screen Daily, “It’s not running for public office. It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe; it’s kind of what you want, right? I want to go and see the NC-17 version … Read more
Getty Image The Cannes Film Festival has a stacked lineup this year, with new movies from David Cronenberg, James Gray, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, and Hirokazu Kore-eda. One anticipated title that will not premiere at the festival, however, is Blonde, the Ana de Armas-starring Marilyn Monroe biopic from The Assassination of Jesse James … Read more
Ana de Armas, but strictly for adults. Since playing a subservient holographic AI in Blade Runner 2049, Ana de Armas’s career has royally bloomed. She won immense praise for her role in Knives Out, took out Spectre agents as a Bond girl in No Time to Die, and did her creeping in Deep Water. Her … Read more
Getty Image Ana de Armas is an unexpected choice to play Marilyn Monroe, but the same thing could be (and was!) said of Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, and now she’s Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart. The Cuban-born actress, whose scene in No Time to Die should have been the whole movie, was cast as the … Read more