Last night was the New York Film Festival premiere of My Week With Marilyn, the film that I’m not looking forward to. I mean, I’ll probably see it, but I’m not expecting Michelle Williams to blow me away as Marilyn Monroe, at all. Michelle’s dress was Christian Dior, and although I’m not crazy about a white dress on a pale-skinned blonde girl, I am thankful that Michelle wore something relatively sexy. I got tired of her style during the last awards season, when Michelle was mostly covered up in a series of vintage-y looking dresses that looked more appropriate for young girls. It’s nice to see her looking like an adult woman, and yes, this is a very Mia Farrow style from the neck up. It’s not just the haircut, either. Michelle really does look like Mia, right?
I’ve also included some photos of Michelle’s costar Eddie Redmayne, who I still think has a serial killer face. It’s something about the eyes and the too-high cheekbones – he looks “off” (to me). Jake Gyllenhaal also came out to support Michelle, but we don’t have any photos of it – you can see them together here.
Here’s the trailer again. Michelle’s Marilyn voice bugs even more the second time around.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
That dress is a super-unflattering color for her. I think Mia Farrow did Mia Farrow way better–Mia’s features were/are small and delicate (like Emma Watson, who also rocked the short short hair), while Michelle has that BIG mouth and round face/head, and I don’t love that combination with the hairstyle.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Michelle, though I certainly pitied her appropriately for the Heath Ledger thing and her baby and all. I just feel she is a very s-l-o-w talker, and that always just strikes me as the hallmark of low intelligence. I saw her on a talk show, and I wanted to shake some life into her.
Michelle looks cute even if I’m not a big fan of the short blonde on her. I would like her to go light brunette or soft red with a different hairstyle. The dress is nice.
That Eddie dude is kind of sexy.
Wowza she has lost a lot of weight after her role!
The one thing I like is that she knows where her Marilyn character ends and she gets back to being herself.
If this was Lindsay in this movie role as Marilyn, I have a feeling she would come as a Halloween costume Marilyn.
The dress is so blah. Better than other things I’ve seen her in, but that’s really not saying much.
They should’ve cast someone else as Marilyn.
And her costar, this Eddie fella, I think he’s kind of cute! Even with the serial killer eyes.
i saw him in a movie about incest with julianne moore. was a fabulous, yet very disturbing flick. can’t think of him any other way now. ick.
She has always struck me as one who is a little quirky and in her own world. I do think she can act but I wish people would quit trying to revive MM. Nobody can do justice to her and it just always falls flat.
I do admire Michelle for the way she has handled the death of HL and she seems like a good Mother. I get the feeling she is still sad and hasn’t really moved beyond her grief. I Could be wrong though.
I like her short hair but agree the color of the dress doesn’t do her justice but I like the cut of it. She just seems like the type of girl who really isn’t a clothes horse and doesn’t like jumping through the Hollywood hoops for these premieres. Didn’t she recently say she would like to be a laundress or something to that effect and retire from acting. That kind of gives you a clue about her priorities.
I love it! I think she looks really pretty.
I’m confused as to why she’s speaking with a British accent, I thought Marilyn was American. First Mira Sorvino and now her, they can never seem to get the casting right.
I think Michelle looks amazing. I like the dress on her…it doesn’t look so white that it washes her out. Its lovely.
I am pretty sure Michelle can play Marilyn just fine. People act like Marilyn Monroe was some complex person…she wasn’t.
Oh she looks so pretty!
I love it too. She has amazing skin, I’m so jealous.
I don’t think anyone could portray Marilyn properly without having her massive sex appeal. Angelina is the only actress that comes to mind as far as sex appeal goes. However angelina’s sex appeal is more femme fatale. Marilyn’s was very innocent and childlike. Still looking forward to seeing this movie though.
I think she looks stunning in that dress.
Eddie does have a rather odd look, but he’s grown on me. He’s a wonderful actor. I first saw him in the British series adaptation of Bleak House, and he was also in adaptation of Pillars of the Earth.
I think she looks lovely.
Actually, Eddie looks more like Mia than Michelle does. It’s all about the freckles…
Love Eddie Redmayne i Pillars of the Earth.
I pretty meh about Williams but it seems to me that her hair and her face shape don’t work together.
Can’t believe they think she looks anything like Monroe.. Those huge cheeks and droopy eyelids.. ͡๏̯͡๏
There is nothing on earth that is more bland than Michelle Williams. Seriously.
I think the dress is pretty and I’m waiting so much for the movie, the trailer is amazing!
That dress looks like a very very pale green to me. Maybe my eyes are going wonky like Cindy Crawford’s. She looks a lot better than she usually looks.
In the trailer I cannot see the sex appeal that Marilyn had. Michele interpretation lacks of the exuberant mix of hotness and fragility that MM had. I won’t see the movie.
Today, the only person whose face is similar to Marilyn’s is Britney Spears (same small chin, forehead, and type of nose), and they share the same type of desperation and loneliness, but Britney is more vulgar and walks like a pork sausage in a can of beans.
I hear you Kaiser. I was there and didn’t want to pay 10 dollars to see this movie. Let alone the $ we pay for the premiere in the festival. Please.
@Love Angelina #9:
Clearly, you’ve never read a well-researched Marilyn Monroe biography. She WAS complex. Anyone who has read her quotes or the published contents of her diary entries and letters would be aware of this. The real woman was different from her image. The fact that you believe Marilyn’s public persona to be who she really was in life shows how fooled you are by her performance.
Norma Jeane (the real person) was always interested in self-improvement. That’s why she read on her own and took a literature course at UCLA after she was already famous. That’s why she continuously studied acting and participated at The Actors Studio in New York with hardcore theater actors who resented movie stars. She had stage fright and was unsure of her acting ability (she had great comic timing and “Bus Stop” proved she could do dramatic acting), yet she forced herself to get in front of the cameras and perform.
She was typecast in dumb blonde roles but in real life she listened to classical music and was familiar with literature, poetry, philosophy, and psychology. She’s often portrayed as passive and weak, yet she divorced 2 husbands who did not support her having a career of her own. Husband #2 (Joe DiMaggio) was physically abusive so she dumped his ass. She DID NOT stay and take more abuse. She publicly supported husband #3 (Arthur Miller) when he was investigated by the HUAC during the communist witch hunts. She could’ve been blacklisted and lost her acting career forever for doing this. However, because of her popularity with the public, her career was not threatened and Arthur did not become a pariah.
She was locked in a studio slave contract but walked out, moved to New York and started her own production company. Later, she renegotiated her contract for better pay and became the first star to win director and cinematographer approval.
She played gold diggers, but in real life rented apartments and later owned a modest 3 bedroom house, not a mansion. She owned mostly costume jewelry and for public events borrowed evening gowns from the 20th Century-Fox studio wardrobe, because she owned little formal wear. She was one of the least materialistic of Hollywood stars.
During 1950s racial segregation, Marilyn got a singing gig for Ella Fitzgerald at a popular whites-only nightclub after lobbying the club owner. Ella said after that she never had to sing at small jazz clubs again and her career took off. She said Marilyn was ahead of her time and didn’t even know it.
Why are the ill-informed always the first to make the silliest assumptions? These are published facts, Love Angelina. Learn to do some research. I’ve read many of your comments and they are often ignorant. Either you don’t bother to read or you are mentally still a teen.
ETA:
Why are the ill-informed always the first to make the silliest assumptions? These are published facts, Love Angelina. Learn to do some research. There are close to 300 books on Marilyn and those are just the ones in English. Various authors, from Steinem, Mailer, Capote, Rosten, etc., would not have written about her if she had no mystique and wasn’t complex. How many books do you see are about the truly one dimensional, like Anna Nicole Smith or Paris Hilton? I’ve read many of your comments and they are often ignorant. Either you don’t bother to read or you are mentally still a teen.
Thanks @Minty!
I have never really been interested in MM until just now with your comments.
Fasinating stuff.
Hi Addie! That’s quite a compliment. Thank you very much. If you’re interested in reading some decent MM books, I can recommend several. These are not the latest, since I haven’t read any of the recent ones that have been published. I don’t agree with everything these authors have written, but they generally present a balanced look at her life:
1. “My Story” by Marilyn Monroe & Ben Hecht (her ghostwriter)
2. “Marilyn: The Ultimate Look At The Legend” by James Haspiel (her teenage friend, who knew the real Norma Jeane)
3. “My Sister Marilyn” by Berniece Baker Miracle (her half-sister)
4. “Marilyn And Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends” by Susan Strasberg (her acting coach’s daughter)
5. “Marilyn: An Untold Story” by Norman Rosten (her poet friend)
6. “Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed” by Michelle Morgan
7. “Marilyn Monroe: The Biography” by Donald Spoto
I don’t recommend the books written by Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Ted Jordan, and Lena Pepitone. Avoid, too, the novel “Blonde” by Joyce Carol Oates. It is trashy, sleazy fiction and relentlessly harsh. Many mistake it for a biography and many more will think its lies are facts when the new movie version based on it (starring Naomi Watts) comes out.
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