Netflix gave followers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at what the hair division group did to show Ana de Armas into Marilyn Monroe.
Ana de Armas, 34, underwent an unbelievable transformation to play Marilyn Monroe within the drama movie Blonde. Netflix shared a “time lapse” video of the hair division group attending to work on Ana, in order that she might look equivalent to probably the most iconic actresses to ever stay. The video was launched on September 30, two days after Blonde began streaming on Netflix.
Time lapse of Ana de Armas reworking into Marilyn Monroe for Blonde. pic.twitter.com/p9rnls4BDf
— Netflix (@netflix) September 30, 2022
Firstly of the video, Ana is sitting within the make-up chair donning her signature brown hair. Inside the 42 second clip, the hair division group hid Ana’s darkish hair with a silicone cap, making her look bald. Then, they glued a blonde wig on her head that seemed fully real looking. Ana sipped espresso out of a “M” cup, and likewise snacked on a pickle, after they took breaks through the makeover course of.
The make-up group additionally helped rework Ana into Marilyn with gentle eyeshadow and darkish purple lipstick. By the tip of the video, Ana seemed precisely just like the late Some Like It Sizzling actress. The clip concluded with Ana in character watching herself in a mirror in black-and-white.
Hair division head Jaime Leigh McIntosh and make-up division head Tina Roesler Kerwin revealed to Selection that they spent two and a half hours every morning engaged on Ana on the set of Blonde. Tina defined that their aim was “to seek out our Marilyn in Ana and never put Marilyn’s hair and make-up on Ana, however to outline our Marilyn and outline her as finest as we might.”
Ana has been open about how exhausting she labored to tug off this new Marilyn Monroe film. “I labored on this movie for hours, each single day for nearly a 12 months,” she beforehand mentioned to Netflix Queue. “I learn Joyce’s novel, studied a whole bunch of images, movies, audio recordings, movies — something I might get my fingers on. Each scene is impressed by an present photograph. We’d pore over each element within the picture and debate what was occurring in it.”
Blonde has obtained blended critiques from followers and critics. Ana’s efficiency is being praised, however the film itself is being criticized for the way it portrays Marilyn. The movie at present has a 44% approval ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.