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Ana de Armas goes through a rollercoaster of emotions as Marilyn Monroe in 'Blonde' teaser

Natural brunette Ana de Armas is stepping into the shoes of one of Hollywood's most infamous blondes: Marilyn Monroe.

On Thursday, Netflix released the first full-length trailer of "Blonde," showing Monroe tormented by fame.

"I know you're supposed to get used to it, but I just can't. I've played Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe … I can't face doing another scene with Marilyn Monroe," de Armas, 34, says as the iconic blonde.

In a conversation with a reporter, she adds: "Marilyn doesn't exist. When I come out of my dressing room, I'm Norma Jeane. I'm still her when the camera's rolling. Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen."

The trailer features Monroe on the verge of tears as flashes of her life pass including relentless paparazzi, her relationships with various men and her spiral while being trapped as a Hollywood icon.

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The new trailer comes a month after the streaming service released the first photos and a teaser of de Armas as Monroe.

The teaser began with an upset Monroe crying in a dressing room before she gathers herself and flashes the movie star's iconic smile.

Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022
Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022

It also shows de Armas recreating the late actress's pose holding down her white dress in the famous subway scene in 1955's "The Seven Year Itch," Monroe getting crowded by paparazzi and other recognizable moments from her career.

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The Netflix biopic is based on Joyce Carol Oates' bestselling novel

"Blonde," an NC-17 film coming to Netflix on Sept. 28, is based on Joyce Carol Oates' bestselling novel.

Netflix writes in the synopsis: "Blonde boldly reimagines the complicated life of icon Marilyn Monroe. Blurring the lines of fact and fiction, the film artfully explores the tension between her public and private life."

Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022
Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022

The film will also explore Monroe's life before fame as Norma Jeane, her rise to becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars and romantic relationships along the way.

In an interview with Netflix Queue last month, de Armas said director Andrew Dominik planned to tell Monroe's story "through her lens."

Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022
Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022

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"He wanted the world to experience what it actually felt like to not only be Marilyn, but also Norma Jeane," she explained. "I found that to be the most daring, unapologetic, and feminist take on her story that I had ever seen.”

In preparation, the actress says she "read Joyce’s novel, studied hundreds of photographs, videos, audio recordings, films — anything I could get my hands on."

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"Every scene is inspired by an existing photograph. We’d pore over every detail in the photo and debate what was happening in it," de Armas shared. "The first question was always, ‘What was Norma Jeane feeling here?’ We wanted to tell the human side of her story. Fame is what made Marilyn the most visible person in the world, but it also made Norma the most invisible."

Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022
Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022

Dominik added that because of Monroe's trauma, she created a "split between a public self and a private self" which made matters worse when she was in the public eye.

"The film’s very much concerned with the relationship with herself and with this other persona, Marilyn, which is both her armor and the thing that is threatening to consume her," he said.

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Kim Kardashian renewed interest in Marilyn Monroe after Met Gala dress controversy

Monroe's life and legacy has gained renewed interest after Kim Kardashian wore a historic Monroe dress to the 2022 Met Gala in May.

An expert closely familiar with the dress told USA TODAY on June 15Kardashian appeared to permanently damage the skin-tight, sparkling nude dress Monroe wore while singing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy in 1962, designed by Bob Mackie.

ChadMichael Morrissette, a visual artist who curates museum and costume exhibits, said he observed irreparable damage to the dress when he saw it on display on June 12 at Ripley's Believe It or Not! on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Morrissette said he previously handled the dress in 2016 when he displayed it for Julien’s Auctions, where Ripley's purchased it for $4.8 million.

As a result of Kardashian wearing the dress up the Met Gala steps, Morrissette says the garment now has a damaged zipper, shredded fabric by its hooks, stress on its shoulder straps and is missing beads and sequins.

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Morrissette took photos of the dress, which he shared with Monroe memorabilia collector Scott Fortner, who reposted them on Instagram to compare how the dress looked before Kardashian wore it.

Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian
Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian

USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Kardashian for comment.

"Marilyn wore it one night, and it was fit to her body. It was like skin on her body," said Morrissette.

Sixty years later, Kardashian worked with Ripley's to wear it to the Met Gala. According to Vogue, she only wore the dress for a matter of minutes before changing into a replica so as not to damage the original.

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I’m extremely respectful to the dress and what it means to American history. I would never want to sit in it or eat in it or have any risk of any damage to it, and I won’t be wearing the kind of body makeup I usually do,” Kardashian told Vogue at the time. “Everything had to be specifically timed, and I had to practice walking up the stairs.”

However, Morrissette says it's clear to any textile expert the dress should not have been worn at all.

"When you're dealing with 60-year-old material and fabric and thread and sequins… everything you do damages it. Every time you display it damages it," he says. "When someone has the audacity to put it on and walk in it up the stairs, you're so ignorant to the history of that piece of fabric that it makes me so angry."

Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, known for its archive of pop culture memorabilia, refuted Morrissette's allegations in a press release on June 16. Kardashian "did not, in any way, damage the garment in the short amount of time it was worn at the Met Gala."

"From the bottom of the Met steps, where Kim got into the dress, to the top where it was returned, the dress was in the same condition it started in," said Amanda Joiner, Ripley’s VP of Publishing and Online Marketing. Joiner was "continuously with the dress the day of the Gala and during transport from Orlando to New York."

Contributing: Charles Trepany, Edward Segarra

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 'Blonde': Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in first movie teaser