It’s an ambition hinted at in a newly released trailer and new images of de Armas playing Monroe. The trailer, shot in a film noir style, shows Monroe grappling with her identity in the face of paparazzi, crowds and film cameras. “I can’t face doing another scene with Marilyn Monroe,” says de Armas as Monroe in the trailer. “Marilyn doesn’t exist. When I come out of my dressing room. I’m Norma Jeane. I’m still her when the camera is rolling.”

The trailer then cuts to flashing images of Monroe in distress: in a car crash, a burning building and collapsing to a sofa.

Arresting new images revealed exclusively in Vanity Fair, also show de Armas portraying the actor in intimate and domestic moments with her partners.

Netflix’s Blonde: a new trailer has been released of Ana De Armas as Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming biopic