Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in new Netflix show 'Blonde'

On Thursday, Netflix shared the first trailer for "Blonde," the movie about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. It features Cuban actress Ana de Armas sobbing as the bombshell who says she doesn't want to be abandoned before her makeup artist tells her that her friend will come "soon" to help her.

Ana is also seen in the pink dress Marilyn wore for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" when she sang "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" and also in the white dress over a street vent for "The Seven Year Itch."

When told that her friend almost arrived, Monroe goes from crying to smiling as she looks in a mirror at her own superstar images, then lets out a laugh, hinting at her erratic mood swings. De Armas delivers a performance that could undoubtedly catapult her to the Oscar.

 
"Blonde" is based on a 2000 book by Joyce Carol Oates and is directed by Andrew Dominik. The show will premiere in September on Netflix. It has already garnered tremendous interest as the streaming service's first original movie to earn an NC-17 rating.

"Andrew's ambitions were very clear from the beginning: to present a version of Marilyn Monroe's life through his lens," De Armas said recently. "I wanted the world to experience what it really felt like to not only be Marilyn, but also Norma Jeane. I found it to be the most daring, unapologetic, and feminist version of her story."

"We worked on this film for hours, every day for almost a year. I read Joyce's novel, studied hundreds of photographs, videos, audio recordings, films, everything I could get my hands on. Every scene was inspired by an existing photograph,” De Armas said. 

The actress elaborated on how they examined every detail of the photos and discussed what they thought happened. 

"The first question was always, 'What was Norma Jeane feeling here?' We wanted to tell the human side of her story. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible."