While Curtis was aware he was sharing space with the Peter Morgan scripts that gave life to Mirren’s Queen (in “ The Queen”) and Langella’s Nixon (in “ Frost/Nixon”), he knew he was still dealing with a delicate balancing act. I’m watching those films where I’m and then I’m thinking, dammit, you know, what? This is a great film, I’m gonna go with it.” Secondly, you think of Helen Mirren playing the Queen, Frank Langella playing Nixon, and none of them are doubles, so to speak. “A lot of people haven’t seen the movies. “First of all, for most people now, Marilyn is a still photograph, an iconic face rather than actress,” Curtis says. But Curtis, in his third decade of directing, understood that we’re at such a distance from Monroe’s era that different portrayals can exist. Though the physical resemblance is only slight, Michelle Williams gives a delicate performance that is both distinct and, at many points, recognizably Monroe. Curtis was not worried about getting every detail right about Monroe’s life. Anna Nicole to Pamela: Two Netflix Documentaries Try to Find New Context for the Blonde Bombshell as Cultural Iconġ.
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