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Why Ana de Armas Instantly Related to Marilyn Monroe Making ‘Blonde’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan seacrest. On a day, armis
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Speaker 1: plays a woman widely considered to be the most iconic
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Speaker 1: entertainer of the twentieth century, Marilyn Monroe, in the new
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Speaker 1: film blonde. And when portraying somebody whose image and star
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Speaker 1: power is so transcendent, connecting the real life person behind
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Speaker 1: all of it could be difficult. But for Anna she
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Speaker 1: grew to understand Norma Jean, the woman born and raised
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Speaker 1: in L A who eventually transformed herself into Marilyn Monroe.
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Speaker 1: It became second nature. She tells Yah who entertainment. It
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Speaker 1: was hard for me not to relate to what was
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Speaker 1: happening to her and to the woman in the story.
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Speaker 1: It was hard not to identify with that and feel
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Speaker 1: heartbroken and moved by it. The more I learned about her,
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to peel all the layers and find
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Speaker 1: who was underneath that and what she went through. It
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Speaker 1: was just so easy for me to see her trauma
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Speaker 1: and her pain and understand what she was going through.
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Speaker 1: So I guess I just really connected with them. Blonde
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Speaker 1: arrives on Netflix tomorrow. That's direct from Hollywood.