Blonde

This film is based on the 2000 novel "Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates, which is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of Marilyn Monroe, not an actual biography. Oates insisted that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. This film, however, was marketed as a biopic about "the real Marilyn" and "closer to the truth" by both director Andrew Dominik and actress Ana de Armas, while Netflix classified the film as "a fictional portrait of Marilyn Monroe" on their official website. Oates said that she didn't have anything to do with the making of this film, though once in a while, director Andrew Dominik would get in contact with her, and that she was given an almost-final cut in 2020 and she has praised the film ever since. The novel had been previously adapted into a two-part miniseries: Blonde (2001), starring Poppy Montgomery as Monroe.

Marilyn greets the Secret Service agents at her door with: "You were expecting maybe Mother Teresa?" Mother Teresa had not gained international recognition in 1962; it's highly doubtful Marilyn would have known who she was.

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