In 2011, Michelle Williams took on the role of Marilyn Monroe with the film “My Week My Marilyn”. The whole world then bowed to the performance of the American actress in the skin of the Hollywood icon who died in 1956. Eleven years later, it was the turn of the beautiful Ana de Armas to lend herself to the rather complicated exercise. In “Blonde”, Andrew Dominik’s new film released on Netflix on September 28, the 34-year-old Cuban bombshell has won the crazy bet of eclipsing her predecessor and signs a masterful performance for both acting and the resemblance.
A three-hour makeover to step into the skin of Marilyn Monroe
Brunette with hazel eyes, Ana de Armas, had to embody Marilyn Monroe, peroxide blonde with blue eyes without the differences being seen on the screen. For this, it therefore passed through the hands of a team of professional hairdressers and make-up artists led by Jaime Leigh McIntosh and Tina Roesler Kerwin, for three hours each day. Thanks to five wigs and an army of must-have products, the actress looks like Marilyn Monroe throughout the film.
Faced with the buzz born because of the incredible transformation of Ana de Armas, the makeup artist Tina Roesler Kerwin confided in the American magazine Byrdie. “The goal was to make Ana look as much like Marilyn as possible, but using techniques that worked on Ana, instead of just replicating what worked on Marilyn” she revealed.
A foundation that is making the buzz on TikTok at the heart of the makeup routine
“Ana’s skin is quite sensitive, so I was careful what I used – we used a Guerlain lipstick which was similar to the one Marilyn had used, and we used Max Factor powder also” she confides before making revelations about what most interested Internet users: the luminous and slightly glowy complexion of the actress throughout the film.
“Marilyn Monroe used Vaseline as a makeup base for her signature rosy look, but Tina Roesler Kerwin opted for everyone’s favorite TikTok foundation, Charlotte Tilbury’s Flawless Filter Foundation: “I knew it was the right one as soon as we tested it.” she confessed.
A must-have waterproof black eyeliner
To draw his legendary line of liner, Kerwin bet on the famous waterproof liner pen from Make Up For Ever. “Once we settled on this liner, we never used anything else because it held really, really well. It’s convenient to line and it held the right shape”.
Finally, regarding the false eyelashes, the makeup artist used individual eyelashes from the LashLash brand. “I used a combination of these. When she was younger we used the thin browns. And then as she embraced the Marilyn look we used a combination of thin and thicker and we stacked them so she had an iconic eye and that famous really thick lash line.”
Elizabeth Sall