Ana De Armas Channels Marilyn Monroe In Romantic Barbie Pink Gown At Venice Film Festival: Photo

Ana de Armas channeled the legendary Marilyn Monroe arsenic she walked the carpet for the world premiere of Blonde astatine the Venice Film Festival connected Sept. 8. The Cuban-born actress, 34, who plays Marilyn successful the Andrew Dominik-directed reimagining of the precocious actress’ life, stunned successful a gorgeous pinkish gown by Louis Vuitton. The formal featured a plunging neckline and pleated worldly that seemed to wage homage to 1 of Marilyn’s astir iconic looks: The achromatic halter-neck formal she wore successful the 1955 film, The Seven Year Itch, which she had to clasp down arsenic a vent successful the crushed blew aerial up astatine her.

Ana de Armas poses astatine the Venice Film Festival connected Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 (Photo: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)

Ana looked elated to beryllium walking the carpet for the film, which is slated to driblet connected Netflix connected Sept. 23, arsenic she flashed a gorgeous grin to photographers. Ana went all-out to accessorize the formal and donned a superb diamond necklace by Messika designed to look similar wings coming unneurotic astir her cervix and a glistening diamond bracelet connected her near wrist. She paired the sparkling jewels with stud earrings and a dainty ringing connected her close pinky finger. Her beauteous brunette hairsbreadth was styled successful classical Hollywood glamor waves.

Although Ana’s show is already getting rave reviews, the roadworthy to the premiere has not been easy. Earlier successful the year, Ana came nether occurrence for having a Spanish accent, which made trolls judge she was unfit to play the California-born popular civilization icon. However, Brad Pitt, who serves arsenic a shaper connected Blonde, came to her defence and said Ana is the lone crushed wherefore the movie could happen. “It was 10 years successful the making,” the Ad Astra star, 58, told Entertainment Tonight in August astir the film. “It wasn’t until we recovered Ana that we could get it crossed the decorativeness line.” He besides said helium believes the Golden Globe nominee did a “phenomenal” occupation portraying Marilyn.

Marylin Monroe successful ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (Photo: Matty Zimmerman/AP/Shutterstock)

“I lone had to audition for Marilyn erstwhile and Andrew said, ‘It’s you,’” the Knives Out prima told Vanity Fair successful 2020, seemingly confirming Brad’s statements. “But I had to audition for everyone else,” she continued. “The producers. The wealth people. I ever person radical I needed to convince. But I knew I could bash it. Playing Marilyn was groundbreaking. A Cuban playing Marilyn Monroe. I wanted it truthful badly.”

Ana besides revealed however overmuch enactment went into making definite she portrayed Marilyn perfectly, some the the signifier Marilyn and the existent her: Norma Jeane Mortenson. “We worked connected this movie for hours, each azygous time for astir a year,” she told Netflix Queue successful June. “I work Joyce [Carol]’s novel, studied hundreds of photographs, videos, audio recordings, films — thing I could get my hands on. Every country is inspired by an existing photograph. We’d pore implicit each item successful the photograph and statement what was happening successful it. The archetypal question was always, ‘What was Norma Jeane feeling here?’ We wanted to archer the quality broadside of her story. Fame is what made Marilyn the astir disposable idiosyncratic successful the world, but it besides made Norma the astir invisible.”

Further describing what the movie is about, she added, “The movie moves on with her feelings and her experiences. There are moments erstwhile we are wrong of her assemblage and mind, and this volition springiness the assemblage an accidental to acquisition what it was similar to beryllium Norma and Marilyn astatine the aforesaid time.”