Zack Sharf Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” is about to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which means moviegoers will finally get to find out why the Marilyn Monroe drama is rated NC-17.
The rating has generated significant buzz for the movie, which casts Ana de Armas as the Hollywood icon and is based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name.
De Armas recently told L’Officiel (via Uproxx) that she is baffled by the film’s NC-17 rating . “I didn’t understand why that happened,” de Armas said of the movie being rated NC-17. “I can tell you a number of shows or movies that are way more explicit with a lot more sexual content than ‘Blonde.’ But to tell this story it is important to show all these moments in Marilyn’s life that made her end up the way that she did.
It needed to be explained. Everyone [in the cast] knew we had to go to uncomfortable places. I wasn’t the only one.” Dominik has also expressed surprise over the film’s controversial rating.
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