The film Blonde, which tells the life of Marilyn Monroe, starred Ana de Armas. However, initially, other actresses were going to personify the legendary artist, but one of them had the luxury of rejecting the role...
Marilyn Monroe is a legend of Hollywood cinema. Having lived only 36 years, her time on the big screen in the 50s and 60s was enough for her to become a s- icon and go down in history. So much so that dozens of tributes were made, both in the field of painting and film and television.
In 2022 Netflix released the film Blonde, the biography of the celebrity born in Los Angeles. This semi-fictional feature film lasts almost three hours and is in black and white, recalling the quality of the cameras of that time. It even mixes real archive images with fictional ones. It starred actress Ana de Armas and also stars Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, and Julianne Nicholson.
The actress who turned down the role of Marilyn Monroe
Ana de Armas was the protagonist who took on the role of the "explosive blonde", but the one who had been chosen at first was the actress Jessica Chastain. The 46-year-old artist had been chosen by scriptwriters and producers in 2014, when the idea of making this film in tribute to Marilyn Monroe arose.
"It wasn't exciting. There have been many of those made by fantastic people and it's not a challenge, do you understand? It wasn't exciting for me," Chastain confessed to justify her absence in the feature film directed by Andrew Dominik.
It is worth remembering that the actress who won an Oscar for her performance in The Eyes of Tammy Faye had even been congratulated by Brad Pitt, who was one of the film's producers, for having been chosen to play Monroe.
After Jessica Chastain rejected the role, the producers had to delay filming because they could not find an actress who could meet the standards they needed. Finally, they found the Cuban woman and it could be done.
Another Hollywood celebrity who was being eyed to play the role of the iconic Marilyn was Naomi Watts. However, her casting didn't go well for her, and she ended up being rejected by the director.
