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Ana de Armas Marilyn was with me

To prepare to play Marilyn Monroe in the controversial Netflix biopic Blonde, Cuba-born actress Ana de Armas trained for nine months with a dialect coach and spent more than three and a half hours daily in makeup to transform into the blonde bombshell. Still, most of the transformation was internal. “She was all I thought about, she was all I dreamt about. She was all I could talk about. She was with me,” de Armas tells WHO. “And it was beautiful.”

Andrew Dominik, the. “She is f--king amazing,” he said. “The one thing nobody’s going to complain about is her performance.”

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