The 58-year-old Plan B Entertainment co-founder told ET on Monday: It was 10 years in the making. It wasn t until we found Ana that we could get it across the finish line
After a sneak peek of the film was released last week, a number of fans took to social media to criticize the casting, saying that de Armas s accent was not authentic to how Monroe s voice sounded.
The Cuban 34-year-old - who only learned English in 2015 - spent a whole year attempting to perfect the legendary blonde bombshell s Hollywood accent with dialect coach Jessica Drake
Ana de Armas appears as the Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming Netflix movie "Blonde." A new trailer for the movie and new images of De Armas in the movie have been released.