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‘Blonde’: Adrien Brody On Playing Arthur Miller In “Brave” & “Terrifying” Marilyn Monroe Story

 Adrien Brody who features as playwright and one time Marilyn Monroe spouse Arthur Miller in Andrew Dominiks Blonde says elements of the story adapted from Joyce Carol Oates 2000 bestselling fictionalized novel are  terrifying  but hopefully lead to a feeling of empathy for the woman behind the cultural icon.





Blonde is a reimagined retelling of Monroes life that explores the split between her public and private selves. The Netflix movie was warmly greeted at its Venice Film Festival premiere but has polarized critics.


Brody with whom I caught up on the Lido, said what Blonde portrays of what Monroe endured is terrifying  and called it  really brave storytelling.  I think its important in a lot of ways because although it is harsh to experience sometimes that brings greater understanding, and I think theres a lot of positivity in that.   I do not think theres been a universal sense of empathy for Monroe. There been a lot of love and adulation but I do not think its empathetic.The film Brody said is really about a woman whose childhood traumas and all of these ongoing hardships have affected her life and her choices both personally and professionally and how she has to endure that. And her mental health, right?  which is completely untreated and not addressed and very sad.


In the film the pair who were married from 1956-61 meet during an audition for one of Millers plays as Monroe Ana de Armas surprises him with her literary knowledge. While Brody said that initial meeting is perhaps not how it really went down it offered a structural opportunity to encapsulate all of the flaws and thinking that are so kind of pervasive   that are oppressive to her and to him on his own because he has a very intelligent man; his own awareness of his own inability to see her clearly as a human being and the real beauty that he sees through that revelation of her intellect and her emotional intelligence. I thought that was such a beautiful reconstruction.


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