Ghosts are a girl’s best friend.
Ana de Armas believes Marilyn Monroe haunted the cast in her new movie ‘Blonde’, in which she plays the Hollywood icon.
“I think she was happy. She also sometimes threw things off the wall and got angry when she didn’t like something,” De Armas told reporters at the Venice Film Festival, according to Reuters.
“Perhaps this sounds very mystical, but it is true. We all felt it.”
The 34-year-old ‘Knives Out’ star added that Moroe was always around.
“I do believe she was very close to us. She was with us,” De Armas said.
The film’s director, Andrew Dominik, agreed that he felt her presence, telling reporters, “It definitely took on elements of a seance.”
“Blonde” is filled with mystique from the very beginning. Shooting for the biopic began on August 4, the anniversary of Monroe’s death in 1962. She died of an overdose at the age of 36.
To make things even creepier, the first scenes for the film were shot in the same apartment where Monroe had lived with her mentally ill mother, Reuters reported. And her death scene was also shot in the same room where Monroe had died.
De Armas previously admitted that she knew very little about Monroe when she was approached to play the part, but that she studied her during the preparation for the film.
“She was everything I thought about, she was everything I dreamed of, she was everything I could talk about, she was with me and it was beautiful,” said de Armas.
De Armas, who has a strong Cuban accent, even used a vocal coach to record the way Monroe spoke.
And Dominick knew from the start that De Armas was the right person for the role.
“I knew it was her as soon as I saw her on TV,” he said. “It’s kind of like when you fall in love at first sight, when the right person walks through the door, you know.”
“Blonde” also stars Adrien Brody and Julianne Nicholson and premiered Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.