As Andrew Dominik’s Blonde hits Netflix, Joyce Carol Oates talks about the novel that inspired the film, AnadeArmas’ “spellbinding” performance, and why this is a MeToo movie
, it seems like you did a vast amount of research. How did you locate your version of Norma Jeane from all of that material about her life that’s out there?
They don’t have the feeling of being wanted or accepted that most of us have from having a loving family. I really could relate to that. She has brunette hair, she’s quite pretty, but not glamorous. She doesn’t look like a movie star. She has little artificial flowers in her hair, she’s very sweet. And I really wanted to write about that girl, I wanted to look into her childhood, and then I wanted to write about how she moves past being Norma Jeane and goes into this dimension of being Marilyn Monroe, where she lost her private self.
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