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Ana de Armas: Odd casting?


I'm sure this role will propel her into the upper stratosphere if she's not already there but I'm not too sure she even has close features to make a decent facsimile of Marilyn Monroe...

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She looks better than I expected. My question is can she mimic the voice?

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No. She said she practiced for months but test audiences complained she still sounds Cuban. So the director said they’ll have to fix that in post.

So the question is, why did he cast her in the first place? There are hundreds of white actresses who look and sound like Monroe. So why cast a Cuban actress? He never explained why. It’s not like PoC need to “see themselves” as Monroe.

Maybe de Armas was the only one willing to get fully nude for most of the film.

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I just want to know when the protests are going to start. She's Cuban/Spanish and misappropriating a white girl from the mid-west. How can the woke warriors sleep at night knowing of this travesty.

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All bets are off on the accent she's pulling in that one, because seeing her in Deep Water she doesn't sound American, not in the slightest.

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Given she doesn't even have half the tits of the real Monroe, I don't think they were going for realism.

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No big difference actually
https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/3779/377935_8.jpg?1634134019
https://celebritymovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022-02-19-402251/ana-de-armas-tits-nude.jpg

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Monroe was a 36D, Armas is 32C.

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The photos can't lie. That is never a D cup.

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Not sure what photos of Monroe you've been looking at but some of them look larger than D

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It's right there in my post above. Hardly a B.

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https://thumb-p8.xhcdn.com/a/_R6JWJLC52iOqPoLM7uD8A/000/120/668/598_450.jpg

From later in her life.

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Lol that's as fake as it can get.
The picture I provided was taken two weeks before her death.

[edit]: this is the original version of your boob pic btw...
https://www.funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk/sites/flowers/files/styles/portrait_small/public/marilyn-monroe-stares-at-a-flower1.jpg?itok=AIX_92Kx

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And if you notice in that photo she has no bra but was probably 15 to 20 pounds heavier than in your first picture. That added weight along with her miscarriages resulted in bigger tits.

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Monroe had wider areolas, but de Armas is in water, so hers are probably somewhat contracted.

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The woke wankers are probably celebrating this as a "woke washed" casting.

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She seems like an odd choice. Apparently it took her a year to do a fluent America Accent. They couldn't
1. Find An American?
2. A European who can do an American Accent?



Plus shes flat all over. If only Kate Upton could act. Is the director obbsed with Ana and has a fantasy of her being Marilyn?

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They solved that with a computer program that alters her accent so it's not perceptible.

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Yeah very odd. So much of MM's appeal was about her 'look'.

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If you look at the numerous actresses who have played MM, then you will see few of them actually looked like her.


here are a few. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g40436671/actresses-who-have-played-marilyn-monroe/

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Hmm... Ana de Armas actually looks closer than all of them. It's the eyes. Monroe's most recognized feature was her lazy eyes.

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Worst casting this decade so far.

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Austin Butler as Elvis looks absolutely worse.

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both pretty terrible

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The casting was a business decision combined with faux virtue signaling. ADA is a rising star, plus she is a Latina that looks "white".

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Is she? She's just kinda "there" to be honest. If she wasn't sucking off Affleck for awhile all she'd be known for is sucking off Reeves.

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She's a big name right now as far as sexy actresses go.

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