Ana de Armas, who is nominated for Best Actress astatine the 2023 Oscars for her relation arsenic Marilyn Monroe successful Blonde, shared wherefore she wanted to bash "right" by the precocious Hollywood icon.
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Diamonds are Ana de Armas' champion person astatine the 2023 Oscars.
The Blonde histrion brought Marilyn Monroe glam to reddish carpet astatine the March 12 event, dazzling successful a sparkling Louis Vuitton dress. (See each the stars astatine the Oscars 2023.) The 34-year-old, who is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress successful a Leading Role, completed the look with blush constitution and jewelry.
And portion Ana's Academy Awards look surely paid homage to the precocious Hollywood legend, she elaborate however the full Blonde unit felt inspired by arsenic they made the film.
"Marilyn is each implicit LA," she told E! News' Laverne Cox. "Everywhere we went, each the locations, everyplace you spell she's there, everyone has a communicative astir her. So we decidedly each felt her beingness successful the consciousness of that spiritual energy, and I deliberation that decidedly helped with the committedness and that willingness of everyone doing close by her and loving the process of making this movie adjacent more."
And soon, that beingness could gain Ana her archetypal Oscar. Joining her successful the Best Performance by an Actress successful a Leading Role class are Cate Blanchett (Tár), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once).
And past fall, the Knives Out prima explained conscionable however life-changing stepping into Marilyn's iconic shoes were.
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Calling the movie a "gift" to enactment on, Ana told The Hollywood Reporter, "We were successful her service, successful a way. She was each I thought about. She was each I could speech about. She was with me. And it was beautiful."
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