Date uploaded: 2022-10-04 22:53:00
Since premiering last month at Venice Film Festival, "Blonde" has drummed up controversy for its mortifying depiction of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas), who is forced to have two abortions and suffers a miscarriage.
The movie is based on a historical fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Planned Parenthood slammed the movie as "anti-abortion propaganda" in a statement to Variety, while IndieWire called it an "anti-choice statement" in post-Roe v. Wade America.
Here's what historians and "Blonde" director Andrew Dominik have to say about the film's depiction of abortion and what actually happened to Monroe.
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