BEAUTY
Incredible Metamorphosis of Ana de Armas into Marilyn Monroe on “Blonde” Set
Justine Feutry - Madame Figaro
7-October-2022
Producing the biopic about the blonde icon, Netflix has unveiled a video of the lead actress' daily transformation.
Unveiled on September 28 on the video platform, the film “Blonde” by Andrew Dominic divides. Rewriting of the story, with the accent of Ana de Armas ... Criticisms are numerous. However, few are those who denounce the performance of the actress, carried by an incredible physical transformation. Indeed, the one who shared the life of the actor Ben Affleck has really metamorphosed to take the features of the icon of cinema.
A daily exercise that has earned him long sessions of makeup to get into the skin of his character. Netflix has unveiled the backstage video this weekend by publishing on its social networks a time lapse. This process which consists in filming in accelerated a long moment to show the various stages and the result takes all its sense here.
Finding our Marilyn in Ana
We discover Ana de Armas sitting in a chair facing the camera. It is first her chestnut hair that disappears to make way for a fake silicone skull on which a platinum wig is fixed.
Then the makeup enters the scene: the curved eyelashes, the eyeliner, the famous mole and finally a scarlet mouth. Before ending on a kiss sent by the actress in his mirror.
The impressive metamorphosis required no less than two and a half hours each morning. This is what Jaime Leigh McIntosh, head of the hair department, and Tina Roesler Kerwin, head of the makeup department on the set, told Variety magazine: "The idea was to find our Marilyn in Ana, not to put Marilyn's hair and makeup on Ana.
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