Ana de Armas Plays A Troubled Marilyn Monroe In First Blonde Trailer

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Netflix's highly anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde received its first official trailer today. In the trailer, the Ana de Armas film tackles Monroe's troubled private life, which was dramatically different from her bubbly public persona.

Produced by Plan B Entertainment and distributed by Netflix, Blonde has been ramping up its publicity campaign in the past few weeks. Publicity photos and a short teaser were released earlier this month, and only yesterday audiences were treated to new behind-the-scenesBlonde photos of the film’s making.

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The new Blonde trailer depicts a mood of vulnerability and sadness. Images of Monroe in her dressing room, walking the red carpet, and being photographed are intercut with footage of her at a diner with a male friend. When he asks her how she got her start in movies, we see a flashback to Monroe being harassed by a studio executive in his office. In the diner, she looks away in embarrassment and says, “I guess I was discovered.”

All of this is set to audio of the real Monroe singing “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend” from her iconic role in Howard Hawks' 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The juxtaposition between the confident seductress persona of the song and the vulnerable, exploited young woman portrayed by de Armas masterfully evokes the tragic irony of Monroe's life. The trailer ends with the text “watched by all, seen by none” as the footage shows Monroe crashing her car into a tree, standing helplessly in a burning room, and silently mouthing “help me.”

Monroe was one of the most recognizable names of Classical Hollywood and an iconic image of the era. In fact, when the artist Andy Warhol wanted to comment on U.S.