076 - Blonde Hamlet

Published: Oct. 20, 2022, 9:26 p.m.

Beautiful, breathy, kittenish, dizzy, bombshell, blonde. So many words can describe Marilyn Monroe and never really capture who she was\u2026or who we think she was. Was she a spoiled, vain, ambitious starlet who played men as easily as she did the ukulele in \u201cSome Like It Hot\u201d? Or a sad, traumatized victim, ever needy, ever wanting for approval, never finding the respect she craved, the child she yearned for nor the man she really loved.

The movie \u201cBlonde\u201d starring Ana de Armas directed by Andrew Dominik adapted from the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, seems to be certain of the latter. Lisa and Dean sit down with master acting teacher Terry Knickerbocker \u2014 who coaches some of Hollywood\u2019s most compelling actors like Sam Rockwell, Daniel Craig and Emmy Rossum \u2014 to ask what he thinks of the film, of the performance by de Armas and why the persona of Marilyn Monroe has become so iconic, and such a Mount Everest, much like the role of Hamlet, that so many actresses want to climb. Join us as we break it all down.

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