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Marilyn Monroe once said that fame is fickle, but actually, I think fame is terrifying.

You’ll have heard her say that in Netflix’s documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, which left no conspiracy theory or Kennedy connection unturned when it came to the mysterious way she died at the age of 36.

Now, amidst the canon of content exploring Monroe’s life and trauma, there’s a new Netflix film, Blonde, adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’s novel of the same name.

Andrew Dominik’s film is a fictionalised take on the famous blonde’s life, focused on her negotiating her identity, comparing the Monroe as seen by the whole world to how she viewed herself as Norma Jeane, her real name.

Have a look at the trailer:

Ana de Armas is the star of the show. However, her accent is causing Blonde to attract some backlash, per The Daily Mail:

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Although, Screen Rant argues against the criticism with a few fair points:

As revealed in the Blonde trailer, Ana de Armas’s Cuban accent is still evident in her performance as Marilyn despite “nine months of dialect coaching” (via The Times). This has been met with a critical backlash, but de Armas’s accent is irrelevant to the quality of the movie. Blonde is a fictional retelling of a true story and is not intended to be a biopic.

…Blonde not being a true biopic frees it from such scrutiny as well as other expectations with the portrayal of certain aspects of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Instead, it can show a version of her story from multiple perspectives.

The trailer shows de Armas completely transformed into Marilyn, having mastered her personality traits, which one can argue, makes up for any accent problem.

Besides, per Variety, the 34-year-old Golden Globe nominee worked really hard:

“We worked on this film for hours, every single day for almost a year,” de Armas told Netflix Queue earlier this about the film. “I read Joyce’s novel, studied hundreds of photographs, videos, audio recordings, films — anything I could get my hands on. Every scene is inspired by an existing photograph. We’d pore over every detail in the photo and debate what was happening in it. The first question was always, ‘What was Norma Jeane feeling here?’

We wanted to tell the human side of her story. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible.”

Indeed, that is where the focus should lie.

Blonde will be on Netflix from September 28.

[sources:variety&screenrant]