Ana de Armas visited Marilyn Monroe's grave to ask permission to film Blonde
magazine in a new cover story. “Then we went to the cemetery and put it on her grave. We were asking for permission in a way. Everyone felt a huge responsibility, and we were very aware of the side of the story we were going to tell—the story of Norma Jeane, the person behind this character, Marilyn Monroe. Who was she really?”
Despite asking for permission, the idea that Monroe’s ghost signed off on the film doesn’t exactly line up with past comments from the cast and crew abouton set. “I truly believe that she was very close to us. She was with us,” Armas shared during a Venice Film Festival press junket. “I think she was happy. She would also throw things off the wall sometimes and get mad if she didn’t like something. Maybe this sounds very mystical, but it is true. We all felt it.
“I would go to sleep and dream I had long conversations with her, or little things — like once we were choosing which color vase we’d put flowers in,” Armas recalls. “I don’t want it to seem like I’m saying, ‘Marilyn and I were connected’ — not at all. But I was thinking of her so much, some days I would go home and have dinner and as I was washing the dishes I would just start sobbing, crying and crying, because I had this terrible feeling — I knew I couldn’t fix it.
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