Ana de Armas Goes Bald To Transform Into Marilyn Monroe In ‘Blonde’: Watch Wild Makeover Video

Ana de Armas, 34, underwent an unbelievable translation to play Marilyn Monroe successful the play film Blonde. Netflix shared a “time lapse” video of the hairsbreadth section squad getting to enactment connected Ana, truthful that she could look identical to 1 of the astir iconic actresses to ever live. The video was released connected September 30, 2 days after Blonde started streaming connected Netflix.

Time lapse of Ana de Armas transforming into Marilyn Monroe for Blonde. pic.twitter.com/p9rnls4BDf

— Netflix (@netflix) September 30, 2022

At the commencement of the video, Ana is sitting successful the constitution seat donning her signature brownish hair. Within the 42 2nd clip, the hairsbreadth section squad hid Ana’s acheronian hairsbreadth with a silicone cap, making her look bald. Then, they glued a blonde wig connected her caput that looked wholly realistic. Ana sipped java retired of a “M” cup, and besides snacked connected a pickle, erstwhile they took breaks during the makeover process.

The constitution squad besides helped transform Ana into Marilyn with airy eyeshadow and acheronian reddish lipstick. By the extremity of the video, Ana looked precisely similar the late Some Like It Hot actress. The clip concluded with Ana successful quality staring astatine herself successful a reflector successful black-and-white.

Ana de Armas arsenic Marilyn Monroe successful ‘Blonde’ (Photo: Netflix)

Hair section head Jaime Leigh McIntosh and makeup section caput Tina Roesler Kerwin revealed to Variety that they spent 2 and a fractional hours each greeting moving connected Ana connected the acceptable of Blonde. Tina explained that their extremity was “to find our Marilyn successful Ana and not enactment Marilyn’s hairsbreadth and constitution connected Ana, but to specify our Marilyn and specify her arsenic champion arsenic we could.”

‘Blonde’ prima Ana de Armas (Photo: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

Ana has been unfastened astir however hard she worked to propulsion disconnected this caller Marilyn Monroe movie. “I worked connected this movie for hours, each azygous time for astir a year,” she antecedently said to Netflix Queue. “I work Joyce’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.”

Blonde has received mixed reviews from fans and critics. Ana’s show is being praised, but the movie itself is being criticized for however it portrays Marilyn. The movie presently has a 44% support standing connected Rotten Tomatoes.