“Blonde” obtained an NC-17 score from the Movement Image Affiliation earlier this yr on account of “some sexual content material,” according to the organization’s website. Which means the movie is beneficial for adults solely and nobody underneath the age of 17 ought to be admitted to the theater.
De Armas, nevertheless, thinks the score is unwarranted.
“I did not perceive why that occurred,” she instructed L’Officiel in a canopy story. “I can let you know quite a lot of reveals or films which might be far more express with much more sexual content material than ‘Blonde.’ However to inform this story you will need to present all these moments in Marilyn’s life that made her find yourself the best way that she did. It wanted to be defined. Everybody [in the cast] knew we needed to go to uncomfortable locations. I wasn’t the one one.”
“Blonde” is an adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates novel from director Andrew Dominik.
In an interview with ScreenDaily again in February, Dominik characterised the movie as “a demanding film.”
“If the viewers would not prefer it, that is the f—ing viewers’s drawback,” he mentioned. “It is not working for public workplace.”
He added: “It is an NC-17 film about Marilyn Monroe, it is type of what you need, proper? I wish to go and see the NC-17 model of the Marilyn Monroe story.”
The movie is on the market for streaming on Netflix on September 23.
