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1	* AbilityOverAppearance: Although many people complained about Creator/AnaDeArmas being Cuban playing Creator/MarilynMonroe, an American, Creator/AndrewDominik maintains that she gave the best audition; in fact, he was ready to cast her after her very first one (and she only had to audition again for producers).
2	* ApprovalOfGod:
3	** The estate of Marilyn Monroe gave their praise to Ana de Armas's casting and said they were looking forward to seeing the film.
4	---> "Based on the trailer alone, it looks like Ana was a great casting choice as she captures Marilyn's glamour, humanity and vulnerability."
5	** Joyce Carol Oates gave her approval of the film after seeing a rough cut. [[https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1575953895163015168 In her words]]:
6	---> '''Joyce Carol Oates''': I think it was/is a brilliant work of cinematic art obviously not for everyone. surprising that in a post#[=MeToo=] era the stark exposure of sexual predation in Hollywood has been interpreted as "exploitation." surely Andrew Dominik meant to tell Norma Jeane's story sincerely.
7	* CreatorsOddball: Andrew Dominik commented on how this was his first film to feature a female protagonist, with less emphasis on dialogue and more about "an avalanche of historical events".
8	* ExecutiveMeddling: Netflix actually told Dominik to tone ''down'' the film's sexual content and he shot it with an R Rating in mind. He was surprised when it still got an NC-17 and both Netflix and Dominik just accepted the rating.
9	* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: It took twelve years to acquire the proper funding to get the film off the ground. It began filming in 2019 but had to be delayed due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and it wasn't finished until 2021.
10	* FakeAmerican:
11	** Cuban-Spanish Creator/AnaDeArmas plays the American Creator/MarilynMonroe. It even made a point of contention that in the trailers, de Armas's Cuban accent is still noticeable even when she's trying to imitate Monroe.[[note]]And being one of the main reasons [[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor she doesn't dub herself in the Latin American Spanish dub]], as traditionally done by Netflix due to internal policies regarding Latino actors, as that would be the equivalent of Creator/MarilynMonroe speaking with a Jamaican accent.[[/note]]
12	** Danish actor Caspar Phillipson plays UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
13	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The film was released in 2022, 60 years after Marilyn's death.
14	* RoleReprise: Caspar Phillipson reprises his role as JFK from ''Film/{{Jackie}}''.
15	* StarringAStarAsAStar: Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe.
16	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
17	** An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's novel was first greenlit in 2010, with Creator/NaomiWatts attached to play Marilyn. In the mid 2010s, Creator/JessicaChastain was also attached to play the role.
18	** While in the finished film scenes of some of Marilyn Monroe's films are actual scenes from those films that just have Ana de Armas superimposed over Marilyn, Creator/AndrewDominik initially couldn't get the rights to the films, so he shot full recreations of the scenes. The [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] executive who had been opposing that was fired during production, and his replacement gave them permission to use the footage.

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