While it could have been quite easy for Ana de Armas to feel exploited by the racier scenes she was required to film for Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, the actress recently explained that this was most certainly not the case. When it came to the filming of some scenes that may be hard to watch, the young actress of the moment said that being in control of what she did and did not do on camera meant that although some viewers may find it uncomfortable viewing, she felt she was always in a safe environment and did not feel uncomfortable at all filming them.
Blonde is a fictional look at the life of Marilyn Monroe, especially during her rise to fame in the 1950s and up to her death in 1962. While the movie itself has received some mixed reviews, and some criticism from certain groups of people online for the choice of casting, there has been unanimous praise for de Armas’ performance as the troubled Hollywood icon. The actress has already commented on the surprising NC-17 rating applied to the movie for its sexual content, but she has also made it clear that there is nothing in the movie that she was unhappy to do, and filming the scenes felt completely safe and there was plenty of discussion before shooting took place. De Armas told EW:
Critics Have Said Blonde Earns Its NC-17 Rating
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While star de Armas may not understand why Blonde earned the same rating as movies that she believes have much more graphic sexual content, many early audiences seem to agree with the ratings board on the most severe rating being given to the movie. However, the nudity in the movie is something that de Armas is well aware is going to be compiled online, out of the context of the movie, but she knows that there is nothing she can do to stop that. She previously said:
“It’s harder for people to watch [those scenes] than for me to make them, because I understood what I was doing and I felt very protected and safe. I didn’t feel exploited because I was in control. I made that decision. I knew what the movie I was doing. I trusted my director. I felt like I was in a safe environment. We had hundreds of conversations about these scenes. Everyone felt a deep respect for the movie we were making. And in that sense, I had no fear. I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all, even though they were really hard scenes.”
Blonde is released on Netflix on September 28, and after plenty of press coverage will no doubt soon hit the top of the streamer’s chart.
“It’s upsetting just to think about it. I can’t control it; you can’t really control what they do and how they take things out of context. I don’t think it gave me second thoughts; it just gave me a bad taste to think about the future of those clips. I did things in this movie I would have never done for anyone else, ever. I did it for her, and I did it for [Blonde director Andrew Dominik].”
