Ana De Armas

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🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the movie Blonde, Ana De Armas is in every scene playing the lead role of Marilyn Monroe. Director Andrew Dominik has been developing the fictionalized movie, based on a novel, for more than a decade. He cast De Armas as the lead seven years ago when he saw the actress in her first-ever English language film. In the time since, she caught the attention of wider audiences and critics especially with her performance in the popular 2019 movie Knives Out. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown" Willie Geist gets together with De Armas just before the premiere of her latest film to talk about what it took to play Monroe and the path that got her here.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit-Dum podcast.
0:06.9	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:10.0	I am very excited to bring you my conversation today with the incredibly talented actress
0:15.3	Anaday Armas.
0:17.2	Perhaps you got to know her first in Knives Out, the hit 2019 movie where she played
0:21.9	Nurse Marta in that incredible ensemble cast.
0:26.5	And even among those actors, she stood out.
0:28.6	She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
0:32.8	She's been in no time to die, the Bond movie.
0:35.3	She's been in Blade Runner 2049.
0:38.0	And in this year's The Gray Man, all big budget kind of action blockbusters that have
0:43.5	made her a star and now taken her to the place where she's standing on her own, playing
0:48.9	Marilyn Monroe in the new movie that has a lot of people talking.
0:53.0	It's called Blonde.
0:54.6	It is based on a novel of about 20 years ago by Joyce Carol Oates.
0:59.6	So it's a somewhat fictionalized interpretation of Marilyn Monroe's life.
1:05.6	It is a difficult movie.
1:07.5	It's a challenging movie.
1:08.9	It's hard to watch sometime.
1:10.8	It's uncomfortable, but it is explosive and she is so good.
1:14.4	She looks so much like Marilyn Monroe and she is in every frame of this movie.
1:18.7	So she really had to get into it.
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