PREVIEW: Blonde (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ana de Armas (Knives Out), Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Bobby Cannavale (Blue Jasmine), Xavier Samuel (Anonymous), Julianne Nicholson (August, Osage County), Caspar Phillipson (Jackie), Toby Huss (42), Sara Paxton (The Front Runner), David Warshofsky (Captain Phillips), Evan Williams (Ride), Michael Masini (Amazing Ape), Luke Whoriskey (film debut), Spencer Garrett (Air Force One), Rebecca Wisocky (Funny Money), Ned Bellamy (Ed Wood), Eric Matheny (The Road Within), Catherine Dent (Venomous), Haley Webb (The Final Destination), Eden Riegel (American Pie), Patrick Brennan (Beyond Suspicion), Garret Dillahunt (Where the Crawdads Sing), Scoot McNairy (Argo), Lucy DeVito (Sleepwalk with Me), Chris Lemmon (Corporate Affairs), Dan Butler (Enemy of the State)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), director, writer; Dede Gardner (Moonlight), Jeremy Kleiner (12 Years a Slave), Tracey Landon (The Yellow Birds), Brad Pitt (Ad Astra) and Scott Robertson (The Revenant), producers; Nick Cave (Hell or High Water) and Warren Ellis (The Proposition), composers; Chayse Irvin (Brightest Star), cinematographer; Adam Robinson (Hunter Gatherer), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A fictionalised retelling of the complicated life of world-famous icon Marilyn Monroe (de Armas), from her troubled childhood as Norma Jeane, to her international stardom and much-publicised romantic entanglements…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Get ready to see a world-renowned icon in a much different light, in this scandalous (but fictionalised) drama from filmmaker Andrew Dominik, with rising star Ana de Armas delivering a bravura turn as Marilyn Monroe herself.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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