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Adrien Brody says “Blonde” is supposed to be “traumatic experience”
Actor Adrien Brody jumped in defense Netflix’s NSFW movie “Blonde”his recent on-screen venture after initial reviews was nothing if not disappointing.
Premiere of the drama directed by Andrzej Dominik, which is rated the rare and stunning NC-17proved controversial as many criticized the film for portraying the late Marilyn Monroe.
Brody, who stars in the film for Monroe’s third husband, Arthur Miller, shrugged off criticism and instead called Dominik “beautifully brave” for handling the film the way he did.
“I think since the movie is told from a first-person perspective, it somehow works to make the movie a traumatic experience,” said Brody. Hollywood reporter. “Because you are in her – her journey, her longings and her isolation – in the midst of all this adoration.”
“It’s brave, and it takes time to digest it,” Brody, 49, continued. “And I think this is contrary to how society perceives what her life is.”
He continued: “And I think this is where the film triumphs because – whether it’s an extreme performance or not – it honors the extreme gulf between the public’s perception of the fame and glory of Hollywood’s most famous cult actor and the reality of this an individual – loneliness and emptiness, mental confusion and tormenting this individual ”.
“It’s fearless filmmaking,” concluded the Oscar-winner.
The film is based on the 2000 novel Joyce Carol Oates of the same name, which also stars Ana de Armas, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Toby Huss and Julianne Nicholson.
De Armas, who plays Monroeshe wanted so much to present the life story of the screen icon as accurately as possible that she visited Monroe’s grave in Los Angeles to ask her permission.
Dominik, 54, said earlier that he knew he had found his Monroe when de Armas entered the casting room.
“It was like love at first sight” Dominik said at the premiere in Venice. “When the right person walks through the door, you know it.”
A two-star review of The Post describes it as “empty” and says the film “consists of one brutally terrible moment after another.”