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When Maggie Gyllenhaal was asked if she could write and direct a short film inspired by Marilyn Monroe, she wasn’t quite sure it was the right fit. “I knew, of course, her major performances and I knew the general performance that she had put into the world when she was alive,” Gyllenhaal tells Vanity Fair. “But I thought, I don’t know if I’m the woman for this job. Let me just take a minute and see what comes up.”
She started to research more about Monroe, the actor known as much for her troubled private life and tragic end as her onscreen work in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, and Some Like It Hot. Through her research, Gyllenhaal became deeply interested in what could have been for the actor, who died at age 36. “I find her acting so fascinating—weird and wild and very joyful, mixed with terribly upsetting all at once,” she says. “I kind of wondered what would’ve happened if she’d had 60 years to herself. What might be different about the work that she would do now?”
Dakota Johnson Looks Nearly Unrecognizable in Marilyn Monroe Transformation
Dakota Johnson underwent an intense makeover for her transformation in Flesh Impact, where she plays one of two versions of Marilyn Monroe alongside Ellen Burstyn.
Dakota Johnson’s hair is 50 shades lighter for her latest onscreen role.
The 36-year-old looked completely different for her transformation into Marilyn Monroe in the first look at the upcoming short film Flesh Impact.
In a photo shared alongside a press release for the film, which sees Johnson portray “Monroe at the height of her fame,” the Fifty Shades alum ditched her signature brunette hairdo for a curly blonde bob.
But it was her glam that pushed her transformation over the edge. Indeed, her Old Hollywood hair was paired with rosy pink lipstick, long lashes and Monroe’s signature beauty mark above her lip.
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Melissa Stevens, granddaughter of late photographer Sam Shaw, discusses the new book, "Dear Marilyn: The Unseen Letters and Photographs."
Dakota Johnson's reported turn as Marilyn Monroe is already reigniting a familiar Hollywood debate: Can anyone successfully step into the shoes of one of the world's most enduring cultural icons?
Instead of a traditional biopic, Maggie Gyllenhaal's "Flesh Impact" imagines Monroe beyond the platinum hair and red lipstick, exploring the woman behind one of pop culture's most enduring personas.
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