![]() (Unless it’s one of her few “maternal” scenes, for which she wears girlie flowered frocks.) She can’t sit at a piano to sing – she must kneel on the bench, fetchingly. ![]() Lord, the way Lyne shoots de Armas, who was so lovely in Knives Out and No Time to Die! Melinda owns a closet full of slinky black slip dresses, which she cannot seem to keep on. She’s the Manic Pixie Nightmare Wife: a tease, a mother (of the most neglected child in filmdom), a hypocrite. Does anyone remember the jingle for Charlie perfume, “Kinda young, kinda now, kinda free, kinda wow”? Melinda is like that, but on meth. He spends his days riding his mountain bike through the Connecticut woods, and his evenings peeping out windows or over staircases at his wife Melinda (de Armas) as she frolics by the pool or shimmies on the dance floor with a succession of human Ken dolls. Vic (Affleck) created a chip used in drone warfare, so he doesn’t have to work any more. ![]() Then he unleashed a string of hits where women were either docile objects or vile harpies: 9½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, Lolita, Unfaithful. He whipped up a stir with Flashdance (1983), the welder by day/club dancer by night fantasy that raked in more than $200-million worldwide. Born in England, he began his career in commercials, where he learned how to burnish everything to an impossibly silky, glossy glow. Lyne turned 81 this month, and this old dog is sticking to his old tricks. Which means they must have known what they’d get – a movie so outdated in its view of women and relationships, and so outlandishly pervy and reductive, they should have called it Male Gaze. Instead, let’s drill down to the central problem: Someone hired Adrian Lyne to direct this. (It’s written by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, the latter of whom is currently in hot water among fans of his HBO series Euphoria for the way he puts his teenage characters in peril.) Neither spouse feels like a real human being nothing either one does makes any sense, psychologically or practically. Let’s forget for a minute that the script, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, is a mess. And that mystery is: Who in God’s name thought this was a good idea? Ultimately, de Armas' explains, watching those scenes as an audience member is likely a more difficult experience than the one she had when she was actually filming them.There is a vast mystery at the centre of the new erotic thriller Deep Water, starring Ana de Armas as a woman who tortures her husband (Ben Affleck) with her flagrant infidelities. ![]() The actor says that the scenes were heavily discussed ahead of time and that the on-set environment was safe and dominated by a sense of respect for the material. In a new interview with EW, de Armas discusses her nude scenes in Blonde, revealing that she never felt exploited by them. Related: Ana De Armas' Marilyn Monroe Accent Backlash Is Absurd De Armas has previously addressed Blonde's NC-17 rating, explaining that it was important to her that the film honestly explore the disturbing events that shaped Monroe as a person. Even before the first trailer was released for Blonde, Dominik made clear that the film wouldn't shy away from showing the less glamorous aspects of Monroe's life from Oates' book, which includes graphic depictions of sexual assault. In addition to undergoing an impressive physical transformation, the star also adopts a unique accent for the movie. De Armas has spoken at length about how serious and all-encompassing the role of Monroe has been for her.
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