"Marilyn" in the cinema

I grew up with her poster in the room, but I've always been attracted more to the private life of Marilyn Monroe, the real Marilyn - the Marilyn before Marilyn! Even as a young girl I was not so interested in her public personality, as in what was behind her image, "says Michelle Williams, who played the role of this great star and film icon in Simon Curtis' Marilyn. (See the gallery dedicated to Marilyn Monroe).

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Interpretation that won her a Golden Globe for Best Actress and even made her close to the Oscar. "I was really worried. And how not to be?" - Williams admits - "But I tried not to take it into account, and I tried to imagine her not as a famous person, but as any actress, more as a friend than a movie icon". gallery of the film, in which Michelle Williams transforms into Marilyn)

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The film, based on the novel My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark, tells of the latter's "meeting" with the diva, which took place in the summer of 1956. Colin, then twenty-three, worked on the set of The Prince and the Dancer, directed and played by Sir Laurence Olivier, who had Marilyn Monroe as protagonist, at his first time in English.

For a few days Colin's life is intertwined with that of Marilyn and what emerges is a sweet, tender and at the same time melancholy and painful portrait of a beautiful, talented, but also extremely fragile woman.

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