Only Ana de Armas, who competes for best actress at the Oscars, is spared from the great failure of ‘Blonde’

Although the story of marilyn monroe It is of global interest. the look that Australian director Andrew Dominik wanted to give to the life and trajectory of the superstar in Blonde (2022), has been definitively rejected by specialized critics, with the exception of the interpretation of the Cuban-American actress Ana de Armas, who gives life to Monroe and that already celebrates this week his first Oscar nomination.

Even though premiered with great expectations last year for the Netflix platformthe tape adapted from original book by Joyce Carol Oates has only achieved stand out so far in the awards for the worst in cinema, the Golden Raspberry Awards (better known as the Razzie), where he accumulates 8 nominationsincluding worst movie.

Dominik himself is also nominated for worst director. Other not so flattering candidates for Blonde are worst script Y worst screen couple for that intimate and controversial scene in the White House.

Amidst the general rejection of the $22 million budget tapeprotrudes Ana de Armas who has been considered in the best actress category for the prestigious Golden Globes, Bafta Awards and now, the Oscarswhose ceremony will be held next sunday march 12.

“I really wasn’t aware of Marilyn. She had seen some of her movies and she knew that she was an actress.but nothing deeper than that. but stop in Blondewe recreated many scenes from the movies in which he appeared. And then I watched them all several times, the ones we recreated, I watched them over and over again”, recalled the actress for W Magazine, about her preparation for the role. It was also the first time that she sported her blonde hair.

Other of the recent and notable roles of Armas were with Daniel Craig in No Time to Die (2021), with Ben Affleck in deepwater (2022) by Adrian Lyne, with Ryan Gosling in The Gray Man (2022).

“I love Ana. She was the best partner in this crime. The whole time he imagined what it would be like for Norma (Marilyn’s real name) to face certain situations. Ana instinctively understood for the most part what was going on, although there were some basic parameters to the character, like she can’t get angry. Anger is not in his toolbox,” said the director for Deadline.

The 34-year-old actress was born in Santa Cruz del Norte (Cuba) and in 2017 played Joi, the Artificial Intelligence hologram girlfriend of Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 49 (2017) directed by Denis Villeneuve. Before coming to Hollywood, He had a long career in Spain in the youth series The intership (2007) and that can now be viewed on Prime Video.

Another of the actresses who were candidates to play Marilyn in Blonde were Naomi Watts, Jessica Chastain, and Charlize Theron.